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Arise ! Take Thy Journey 



Henry Pennington Toler 



NEW YORK: 

New Harlem Publishing Company 
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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 

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DEC 13 1906 

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XXc., No. 



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Copyright, 1906, 
BY 

Henry Pennington Toler. 



ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 



Journal Press 
Elizabeth, N. J. 



For ask now of the days that are past, which were before 
thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and 
ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there 
hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been 
heard like it? (Deuteronomy, 4:32.) 



CONTENTS. 

Chapter Page 

I. City of Truth, . . '. . . -13 

II. Appointed Work, . . . . . i8 

III. Story in Detail, 68 

lY. Second Coming, 130 

V. Jacob's Sons, . . . . . -139 

VI. Spiritual Laws and Bible Sayings, . 145 

VII. New Jerusalem, 172 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Facing Page 

I. Frontispiece. 
II. Vision of Ezekiel 79 / 

III. Northeast Corner Room in First Church of 

Christ, Scientists, New York City 96 ^ 

IV. First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York 

City 103 / 

V. A Birdseye View of Manhattan Island 109 , 



PREFACE. 



The object of this pubUcation is: 

I. To announce that the present City of New 
York is the New Jerusalem of prophecy. 

II. To outHne the story of the Appointed Work 
in its relation to prophecy, and in particular to the reve- 
lation of the City of Truth. 

III. To illustrate the application of Christian 
Science to spiritual laws, and Bible sayings. 

The abbreviations S. & H., and M. W., throughout 
the following pages, refer to the volumes Science and 
Health with Key to the Scriptures, and Miscellaneous 
Writings, by Mary Baker G. Eddy. 

Acknowledgment is made for assistance rendered 
in expressing spiritual facts in material language. 

The Author. 



CITY OF TRUTH. 1 3 



CHAPTER I. 

CITY OF TRUTH. 

Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to 
Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, 
saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched 
forth upon Jerusalem. (Zechariah, i:i6.) 

And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand 
hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess 
it forever, from generation to generation shall they 
dwell therein. (Isaiah, 34:17.) 



What is known as the Harlem Line, proclaimed by 
the Harlem grants and charters, issued by authority 
of the King of England (1666-1686), recorded in the 
office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y., ratified 
and confirmed by acts of the New York Legislature,^ 

1. Laws of 1772, 1775, 1820, and 1823. 



14 arise! take thy journey. 

stretches forth upon the City of New York, from 
Seventy-fourth Street on the East River, to One Hun- 
dred and Twentv-ninth Street on the Hudson. 



The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a 
lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; 
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 

(Genesis, 49:10.) 

For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will 
bring again the captivity of my people Israel and 
Judah, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return 
to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall 
possess it. (Jeremiah, 30:3.) 

Then shall the children of Judah and the children 
of Israel be gathered together, and appoint them- 
selves one head, and they shall come up out of the 
land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel. 

(Hosea, i:ii.) 



The descendants of the original Harlem Patentees 
have been gathered together, and have appointed them- 
selves One Head. 



CITY OF TRUTH. 15 

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the 
breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up 
upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 

(Ezekiel, 37:10.) 



Breath has come into thousands of descendants of 
the Harlem Patentees, — their lineage proved; they live 
and stand '\ip upon their feet," more than forty thou- 
sand in all, — ''an exceeding great army." 



And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and 
shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather to- 
gether the dispersed of Judah from the four corners 
of the earth. (Isaiah, 11:12.) 



Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; in those days it shall 
come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all 
languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the 
skirt of him that is a Jew, saying. We will go with 
you: for we have heard that God is with you. 

(Zechariah, 8:23.) 

The Jewish World estimates that every fourth per- 
son in the Borough of Manhattan is a Jew or a Jewess. 
Few realize that the Jewish tide of immigration for the 
past quarter of a century has set steadily toward the City of 



1 6 arise! take thy journey. 

New York, until to-day nearly seven hundred thousand 
Jews dwell within its limits; and fewer still appreciate 
the fact that while these numbers are steadily increas- 
ing, the population of Jerusalem, by the official census 
of 1895, was made up of not more than twenty-five 
thousand Jews. 

Statistics show the incoming to New York of five 
hundred and sixty-one thousand and seventy Jews be- 
tween October first, 1884, and July thirty-first, 1902. 
Of these, four hundred and eight thousand eight hun- 
dred and ninety-five permanently settled in the City. 



And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord 
shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the 
stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, 

ye children of Israel. (Isaiah, 27:12.) 

And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the 
midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and 

1 will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. 

(Zechariah, 8:8.) 

. . . half of the city shall go forth into captivity, 
and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from 
the city. (Zechariah, 14:2.) 



CITY OF TRUTH. 1 7 

Is the first City, in the first country of the world, 
the long-looked-for City of prophecy? 



I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall 
be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I 
will give it him. (Ezekiel, 21:27.) 

And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel 
Tola . . . (Judges, 10:1.) 



Attention is called in the following pages to the 
true history of the manner of carrying on the work 
incident to the recovery of the Harlem rights and prop- 
erties, under the positive conviction that the City of New 
York is the prophesied City of Truth, — the New Jerusa- 
lem. Let judgment be withheld for a time. 



. . . for if this counsel or this work be of men, it 
will come to nought: 



But if it be of God, ye can not overthrow it; lest 
haply ye be found even to fight against God. 

(Acts,5:38, 39.) 



arise! take thy journey. 



CHAPTER U. 

APPOINTED WORK. 

A little over two years ago, one of the descendants 
of the Harlem Patentees, and her attorney, came to New 
York from Chicago, seeking financial assistance in an 
effort to recover certain Harlem lands. The claimant 
had been engaged for several years in the collection of 
evidence tending to prove her descent, and that of thirty^ 
nine others, the alleged sole owners of the lands in ques- 
tion. 

It was some months before legal investigation of 
the evidence submitted, and a close scrutiny of the City 
and State records, disclosed the fact that the early conT 
ception of the extent of the property involved, and the 
number of those entitled to an interest therein, had beeii 
meager in the extreme. It was discovered that the 
lands sought to be recovered were but a small part of 
a much larger tract, including extensive, built-up por- 
tions of New York City, and that, instead of forty per- 



APPOINTED WORK. 1 9 

sons, as supposed, the entire number of descendants from 
twenty-three original Patentees of the year 1666, through 
both the male and female lines, easily conjectured to be 
forty thousand in number at the present day, were each 
and all, as members of a Corporation, vitally interested 
in the Harlem lands, and entitled to legal notice of every 
move to be taken in their recovery. 

To proceed further in an undertaking, grown 
in a few short months to* vast proportions; to secure 
the legal proofs of the lineage of forty thousand 
living descendants of the Harlem Patentees through- 
out a period of more than two hundred and fifty years; 
to supply the time, labor, and funds, necessary to locate 
each individual of the forty thousand, dispersed over the 
known world; and, finally, in the face of the Statute of 
Limitations, to expect the courts to overturn the title 
to one-half of the City of New York, presented a 
problem fraught indeed with difficulties; — and yet, 
from the time when the realization of the immensity of 
the undertaking had fully dawned, the strangest sense 
of inward admonition, in the face of overwhelming odds, 
urged the immediate entrance upon the great work, 
until, finally, an unaccountable feeling that a wrong 
must be righted, and that more than personal interests 
were involved, carried the decision of the question to 
a higher tribunal. 

At the close of an earnest prayer to God for guid- 
ance, — for some sign to determine the question cit issue, 
— in the presence of a witness, after declaration made 



20 arise! take thy journey. 

that the Good Book alone could solve the problem, 
the answer was found by opening to the tenth chapter 
of Deuteronomy, at the eleventh verse: 



And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey 
before the people, that they may go in and possess 
the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto 
them. 



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Born in 1864, and tracing back on the paternal side 
through Lord Norbury, of Ireland, to the time of Will- 
iam the Conqueror (1066), thence by direct line to the 
house of Toulouse, of France, and on the maternal side 
through a line of Revolutionary patriots, including suc- 
cessive Governors of the State of New Jersey, the 
leader of the enterprise to recover the Harlem rights 
and properties justly lays^ claim to an illustrious an- 
cestry. Brought up with all that luxury could proffer, 
successful to a degree in worldly affairs, blessed with a 
wife, children, and fortune, one feature alone was want- 
ing to fill the cup of earthly happiness, — health ; — the one 
crowning essential of life had failed, and following this 
failure came the conviction, evolved by an experience of 
eight years with medical science, that relief by drugs was 
not to be expected. 



APPOINTED WORK. 21 

Then it was that an invokmtary transition from 
things secular to matters reHgious, brought about by the 
heahng influence of Truth, occurred in a hfe theretofore 
devoted to worldly ends alone. 

At the close of the year one thousand eight hundred 
and ninety-eight, — notwithstanding all the skepticism 
born of irreligion, and the scoffing at the treatment ad- 
ministered, — health was instantaneously restored. 

The explanation of the so-called miracle, while 
simple in itself, tended to elucidate the healiiigs of Jesus, 
and the apostles. 

Was this force of Spirit, that healed ''congestion of 
the blood vessels," in the year of our Lord eighteen 
hundred and ninety-eight, the same power that opened 
the eyes of blind Bartimeus by the wayside, in the early 
part of the first century, and caused the cripple to leap 
for joy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple? 

Did Christ's command, Heal the sick ! portend a 
literal following in his footsteps without recourse to 
drugs? Are the material laws at last to surrender to 
the laws of Spirit? Has a legacy slumbered through 
the centuries, and can the works that Jesus did be ac- 
complished to-day through the understanding of the 
Principle he lived and demonstrated, as revealed in 
Christian Science? 



22 ARIS^:! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on 
me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater 
works than these shall he do; because I go unto my 
Father. (John, 14:12.) 



To learn the application of this newly-discovered force 
in human affairs became the mainspring of life. An ex- 
haustive study of all literature bearing upon the subject 
followed, while the teachings of the Bible appeared in 
a new light. The more this Christ-Science was studied, 
the more wonderful it grew. That remarkable volume. 
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the 'little 
book" of Revelation; 



. . . Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy 
belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as 
honey, (Revelation, 10:9.) 



literally eaten up by Christian Scientists ; the "Com- 
forter" of prophecy, 

. . . whom the Father will send in my name, he 
shall teach you all things, (John, 14:26.) 



APPOINTED WORK. 23 

not only opens the door of human knowledge to the 
hidden sayings, and ''dark sentences" of the Bible, but 
brings to light 



. . . things which have been kept secret from the 
foundation of the world, (Matthew, 13:35.) 



among others, that all is Mind and Mind's Idea ; there 
is no life in matter, and man is immortal, — a mental, 
not a physical being. 

With misgivings at first, the heaUng of simple 
cases alone was attempted. Within a year, however, 
many patients daily received treatment, — the healing of 
all manner of diseases, organic and functional, bearing 
witness to the astonishing fact that a Principle had been 
discovered, known to Moses and the prophets, although 
hidden from the world since the early centuries of the 
Christian era. 

As the understanding of this Christ-Principle de- 
veloped, the power to reflect Truth increased in propor- 
tion, until such diseases as valvular heart trouble, con- 
gestion of the lungs, hip disease, chronic stomach 
troubles, locomotor ataxia, and such habits as drunken- 
ness, and the use of drugs, — one and all yielded to treat- 
ment. 

Of the many healings effected, two will serve to 
illustrate this power of divine Mind over matter. The 



24 arise! take thy journey. 

first was a case of water on the knee, where the patient, 
as the result of an accident, had been lying for ten 
weeks with the limb greatly swollen, and suffering 
excruciating pain. Seven physicians had passed judg- 
ment on the case, pronouncing it of the most serious 
nature, some even maintaining that the patient would 
be a cripple for life. The effect of the first treatment 
was immediate. In twenty-four hours the swelling had 
decreased until the limb was almost normal in size. The 
following day the patient could bend the knee, and on 
the fifth day after the first treatment all sign of the 
trouble had disappeared. 

The second was a case of Graves disease, deemed by 
materia medica incurable, that yielded in like manner to 
the alterative effects of Truth. In three months the 
trembling of the hands ceased, protruding eyes receded, 
and other symptoms resulting from what is termed "thy- 
roid poisoning" disappeared, — a complete return to a 
normal condition of harmony. 

This all-powerful influence of Mind, successfully 
applied in the healing of disease, became as well the 
prominent feature of control in business matters. Con- 
vinced of the truth embraced in Christian Science, its 
adoption as a religion brought with it from partner and 
friend of years standing the request for the dissolution 
of an eminently successful Wall Street firm, necessi- 
tating, through ignorance of this new-old religion, the 
re-establishment of a business career at a time when 
prejudice was at its height. For two years thereafter, — 



APPOINTED WORK. 2$ 

-every step g-uided by the power of Life, Truth, and Love, 
— success was never in doubt. During the period men- 
tioned, an incident occurred on the floor of the New 
York Stock Exchange, worthy of mention as an illus- 
tration of the effect of the impersonal power of Truth. 

While seated for a few moments during business 
hours, quietly reflecting divine Love through the chan- 
nels of thought, a broker in the next seat turned and 
said: "I have had neuritis in my arm for several days, 
and it has entirely disappeared while you have been sitting 
here, — I beheve it is that Science of yours." 

While the proofs of the eflicacy of the God-thought 
were daily in evidence on the New York Stock Exchange, 
the result of its application to the purchase and sale of 
securities was particularly prominent on the ninth day of 
May, 1 90 1, — the date of the greatest panic Wall Street 
ever experienced. 

For months, amid the wildest speculation, stock- 
values had been steadily rising, until excitement in finan- 
cial circles had reached fever-heat. Early on the day 
mentioned, reaction setting in, and prices beginning to 
fall, a panic followed. The god of fear turned men to 
maniacs, and, in the wild scramble to liquidate, confusion 
Avorse confounded ended in pandemonium. Amid such 
surroundings, through the realization that "perfect Love 
casteth out fear," orders for the purchase and sale of more 
than fifty-six thousand shares of stock, distributed 
throughout the list, were personally executed under the 
law of harmony. 



26 arise:! take thy journey. 

This Christ-Principle, appHed to business, and ef- 
fecting the cures of water on the knee, and Graves 
disease, was the same Truth that healed the ten lepers 
nineteen centuries ago, — one only returning to give 
thanks. Rejected of men in the early part of the first 
century, and scoffed at to-day by the ''wise and pru- 
dent," it nevertheless stands forth revealed and demon- 
strated, through the teachings of Christian Science, as 
the second coming of Christ, — 



Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot 
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth 
him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and 
shall be in you. (John, 14:17.) 

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Without further hesitation, accepting the sign 
given, in obedience to the command. 



I. 



. . . Arise, take thy journey before the people, 
that they may go in and possess the land, which I 
sware unto their fathers to give unto them, 

(Deuteronomy, 10:11.) 



APPOINTED WORK. 27 

the great work of the recovery of the Harlem rights 
and properties was inaugurated. 

And after the manner of the coming of the first 
Bible leading, came the forty-fourth verse of the thirty- 
second chapter of Jeremiah: 



Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evi- 
dences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land 
of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and 
in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the moun- 
tains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities 
of the south: for I will cause their captivity to re- 
turn, saith the Lord. 



At first reading, the words of the reference ap- 
peared to be utterly without application to the Town of 
New Harlem, and its revival into active being; but 
later, upon reading Dr. Poole's prophetic utterance in 
Anglo-Israel, that "some of these days" the evidences 
mentioned would be found, ''to the great confusion of 
the unbelievers, and the great joy of all Bible students, 
especially the Anglo-Israelites," the interpretation of 
the passage became a revelation. 

Of the many difiiculties standing in the way of 
a resurrection of the Town of New Harlem into its 



28 arise! take thy journey. 

ancient rights and properties, under the patents of 
the King of England of 1666- 1686, and the tracing 
and locating of forty thousand townspeople, as above 
described, one of the formidable proved to be the 
total disappearance from public view of the Harlem 
Town and Court records. The absence of these records 
from the public depositories was of more than passing 
significance to the successful recovery of the Harlem 
lands and privileges. They contained, among other his- 
torical, genealogical, and legal records of the greatest 
value and importance to the descendants of the Har- 
lem Patentees and the project in hand, all the deeds, 
mortgages, wills, and other instruments covering the 
transfers of the various portions of Harlem lands by 
the freeholders and inhabitants of the Town. Upon 
the discovery that these ancient and valuable Harlem 
records were missing, — for years purposely withdrawn 
from public view, — the hidden meaning of the reference 
became apparent. 

These missing Harlem records would undoubtedly 
disclose how men had bought "fields for money," and 
had subscribed and sealed "evidences," and taken "wit- 
nesses" to the various transfers of Harlem lands, while 
the promise of the closing words, "I will cause their 
captivity to return, saith the Lord," remains to be ful- 
filled. 

Twelve times the Word came to open the Scriptures 
and read, — never twice on the same day, — all between 



APPOINTED WORK. 29 

the fifteenth day of September, 1901, the date of the in- 
ception of the Appointed Work, and the twenty-fifth day 
of December following. 

Oppressed with the weight of the magnitude of the 
undertaking, and impressed with its consequences to so 
many thousands of those interested in the lands and 
properties, in the ordinary routine of business on the 
floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the Word came 
for the third time. Open and read ! Telephoning at 
once to a Scientist at the office, the request was made to 
"open the Bible and read the first verse seep," — and 
the twenty-fifth verse of the twenty-sixth chapter of I. 
Samuel was read in reply: 



3. 



Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son 
David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt 
still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul re- 
turned to his place. 



This reference was accepted as a divine intimation 
of the success that would attend the work, and that all 
obstacles would be finally overcome; and is included 



30 arise! take thy journey. 

among these leadings, although the act of opening the 
Bible was performed by another. 



And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew 
that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the 
Lord. (I, Samuel, 3:20.) 



Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over Jordan this 
day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier 
than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 

A people great and tall, the children of the Ana- 
kims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast 
heard say. Who can stand before the children of 
Anak! 



Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy 
God is he which goeth over before thee; as a con- 
suming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring 
them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them 
out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said 
unto thee. (Deuteronomy, 9:1-3.) 



APPOINTED WORK. 3 1 



Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any 
more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only 
if they will observe to do according to all that I have 
commanded them, and according to all the law that 
my servant Moses commanded them. 

(II. Kings, 21 :8.) 



All the inhabitants of the hill country from Leba- 
non unto Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians, 
them will I drive out from before the children of 
Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites 
for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee. 

(Joshua, 13:6.) 

8. 

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also 
called: and whom he called, them he also justified: 
and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 

What shall we then say to these things? If God 
be for us, who can be against us? 

(Romans, 8:30, 31.) 

These five individual leadings, typifying not only 
the acquisition, but the permanent occupation of the 



32 arise! take thy journey. 

Harlem lands, and directing their division by lot, — 
taken in connection with the inspiration of what had gone 
before, — led up to the earnest study of Bible prophecies. 

The book of Zechariah in particular claimed atten- 
tion,' and in the second and third chapters, upon reading 
the passages : 



. . . Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusa- 
lem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the 
multitude of men and cattle therein, 

(Zechariah, 2:4.) 



. . is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? 

(Zechariah, 3:2.) 



. . . behold, I will bring forth my servant the 
BRANCH, (Zechariah, 3:8.) 



a strange influence or sensation was experienced. At 
first, coming in the nature of a hint, — like the nudge of 
an elbow, — in effect, conveying the thought reduced to 
words : "You're that young man, — you're the one, — 
you're the BRANCH," the feeling grew from possibility 
to probability. Then began a struggle to overcome the 
indescribable awe accompanying a personal connection 



appointe;d work. 33 

with matters of Holy Writ, and the fear attendant upon 
the assumption of the responsibiUties involved, should 
the revelation mentioned prove to be true. 

A second reading of the lines quoted served only to 
redouble the energy and force of the feeling described; 
until, with the deepest veneration, the Bible, as in former 
like situations, was opened for the word of God upon the 
subject at the second verse of the sixty-sixth chapter of 
Isaiah : 



For all those things hath mine hand made, and all 
those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this 
man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a 
contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 



And again, a few days later, at the thirteenth verse 
of the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy: 



10. 



And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the 
tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not 
be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the command- 
ments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee 
this day, to observe and to do them: 



34 arise! take thy journey. 

and finally, at the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh verses 
of the eleventh chapter of I. Kings : 



II. 



And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David 
my servant may have a light alway before me in 
Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my 
name there. 



And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign accord- 
ing to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king 
over Israel. 



If the eleven Bible leadings, coming in the manner 
described, were of divine origin, but one interpretation 
was possible, namely, that a chosen one had come for a 
purpose undisclosed, except in the eleventh divinely- 
revealed Scriptual leading, wherein man and purpose are 
for the first time joined and clearly defined. 

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In the year 1666 the Duke of York, brother of 
Charles II., King of England, through Governor Rich- 
ard Nicolls, issued a grant or charter to the freeholders 



APPOINTED WORK. 35 

and inhabitants of Harlem, incorporating the Town of 
New Harlem as a part or parcel of the greater City of 
New York, and conveying to the Town, through its 
Trustees in the charter named, all lands on Manhattan 
Island north and east of a line stretched by the descrip- 
tion of the grant across the City of New York, from 
Seventy-fourth Street, on the East River, to One hun- 
dred and Twenty-ninth Street on the Hudson. 

This line, commonly known as the Harlem Line, 
crossing the city as described, served to divide the lands 
of the freeholders and inhabitants of Harlem on the 
east from the lands of the City of New York, and 
formed, as well, the western boundary of what was 
known as the sixth or ''out-ward" of the City. 

A second grant by the same authority, in 1667, and 
a third, issued in 1686, by command of the English King, 
through Governor Thomas Dongan, ratified and con- 
firmed the first. 

Between the years 1772 and 1824, the line in ques- 
tion became the subject of Colonial and State legisla- 
tion. In the first year mentioned, an act of the Colonial 
Assembly was passed appointing commissioners to "set- 
tle and ascertain" the line of division between the 
Township of Harlem and the lands of the Mayor 
and Commonalty of the City of New York. On the 
third of April, 1775, a further act was passed confirming 
the proceedings of the commissioners, appointed by the 
preceding act, and settling the line as it runs to-day 
under the ancient grants and charters above described ; 



36 arise:! take thy journey. 

while in 1820 and 1823, acts of the Legislature of the 
State of New York, supplementary in nature, were 
passed in reference to the establishment of the line men- 
tioned. Manifestly, therefore: — 

In 1666 the King of England stretched forth a line 

over the City of New York. 

In 520 B. C, Zechariah the Prophet wrote of the 
line that should stretch forth upon Jerusalem. 



Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to 
Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in 
it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be 
stretched forth upon Jerusalem. (Zechariah, 1:16.) 



Is New York, with its famous Liney the prophe- 
sied City of Truth, — the New Jerusalem? Will the 
City of New York — in the land of Shinar (the land 
of two rivers, — East and Hudson, — Zechariah, 5:11) 
— experience in the restoration of the Harlem rights and 
properties, the overturning predicted by Ezekiel the 
Prophet ? 



I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall 
be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I 
will give it him. (Ezekiel, 21:27.) 

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APPOINTED WORK. 37 

Three months had now passed in the work of the 
recovery of the Harlem lands, and progress made suffi- 
cient to disclose the immensity of the undertaking, and 
to develop a number of seemingly serious obstacles to 
its successful accomplishment. 

Under the principles of the English Common and 
Statute Laws, adopted by the decisions of the higher 
American courts, it was discovered that the ancient 
grants and charters of 1686 formed a Corporation, as 
above described, known as the Town of New Harlem ; 
that under these same grants a gigantic Trust was also 
formulated, — never terminated, — and would never end 
except, perhaps, by act of the Body-Corporate itself, 
or by decree of some Court of competent jurisdic- 
tion. The Town of New Harlem, therefore, until the 
happening of such an event, had never been, and would 
never be, erased from the civic map. The Town-Cor- 
poration was the owner of all lands above the Harlem 
Line not previously legally alienated, and under this 
principle of law, in the settlement of the Harlem rights 
and properties, the validity of the titles to one-half of 
the City of New York would necessarily be called in 
question. 

Under these conditions, and among other essentials 
of the undertaking, as many as possible of the forty 
thousand living descendants must first be traced through 
parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, back to 
the Patentees of 1666, and the lineage of each recorded, 
and proved. 



58 arise! take thy journey. 

An outline of the nature of the Harlem claims must, 
secondly, be brought to the attention of the descendants, 
traced as indicated, with legal notice of the steps taken 
and to be taken in their recovery ; and thirdly, the 
parties in interest gathered together in a Town meeting, 
and such meeting held within the limits of the present 
City of New York itself, before an appeal to the courts 
could be instituted. 

To meet the remarkable exigencies of the situation 
above described ; to face the odium attaching to the 
leadership of an enterprise on its face revolutionary in 
character; to bring to public notice flaws in practically 
all the titles to lands above Seventy-fourth Street in New 
York City, — guaranteed by the most wealthy and power- 
ful Trust and Title Companies in the world, — must, 
perforce, be accomplished by divine help alone. 

If the opening of the twentieth century marks the 
"latter days" of error, and the advent of the New Jeru- 
salem consciousness, or reign of Spirit; if the time is 
when 

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law- 
giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and 
unto him shall the gathering of the people be, 

(Genesis, 49:10.) 

if, as Professor Totten declares, ''the Eastern Passover 
full moon of April eleventh to twelfth, 1903, which was 



APPOINTED WORK. 39 

eclipsed as it arose at sunset, marked absolute midnight, 
or 'low twelve' on the universal dial of the ages, and 
that from now on the clock will be striking twelve for 
one thousand one hundred and forty-seven (plus) days, 
with so many punctuated events of note that no one will 
need to misunderstand them ;" if it be true that 

. . . half of the city shall go forth into captivity, 
and the residue of the people shall not be cut off 
from the city, (Zechariah, 14:2.) 



is the Herculean task of the revelation of the New 
Jerusalem imposed on one nominated to be a ''prophet 
of the Lord," by the leadings described, and the voice 
that called Samuel more than three thousand years ago, 
heard again at the dawn of the fulfillment of prophecy? 
Even at midnight on the twenty-fourth day of Decem- 
ber, 1 90 1, within that sacred Peniel where the human 
wrestled with the divine, in silent thought a heartfelt 
appeal went forth to omnipotent Mind to grant to one 
willing and ready to serve and suffer in the sacred cause 
of Christ, an unmistakable sign, — one that would for- 
ever dispel the doubts surrounding the leadership of an 
undertaking fraught with such vital and far reaching 
consequences to the human race. And for the twelfth 
time the Word — "with God," and ''God" — said: Open 
and read ! And the opening and reading were at the 
tenth chapter of Judges, the first verse: 



40 arise:! take: thy journey. 

12. 

And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel 
Tola ... 

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Son 01^ MAN. 



The coming of the "Son of man," referred to by 
Jesus (Matthew, 24:27), is the coming of the ap- 
pointed one (Son) of God's ideas (the generic-man), 
to perform a certain work. Even as Jacob prophesied 
three thousand six hundred years ago: . . . "unto him 
shall the gathering of the people be." (Genesis, 49: 10.) 
And when this event occurs the news will spread 
rapidly: "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, 
and shineth even unto the west ; so shall also the coming 
of the Son of man be." (Matthew, 24:27.) 



And he said unto me, Like as thou canst neither 
seek out nor know the things that are in the deep of 
the sea: even so can no man upon earth see my Son, 
or those that be with him, but in the day time. 

(II. Esdras, 13:52.) 



APPOINTED WORK. 4 1 

''In different ages the Divine idea assumes differ- 
ent forms, according to humanity's needs" (M. W., p. 
370), and when materiality sinks into insignificance in 
the elimination of material personality; when the world 
grows to the realization that "God is Spirit," and that 
. . . "God created man in his own image, in the image 
of God created he him" (Genesis, 1:27), the coming 
of the "son of man" will be interpreted in a broader im- 
personal sense as the coming of the "Christ-understand- 
ing" (son) of God's ; creation (man), bringing peace to 
all alike, — the full realization of Life, Truth, and Love. 



. . . my peace I give unto you: not as the world 
giveth, give I unto you. (John, 14-^27.) 



Christ was seen, through the false concept of mor- 
tals, as flesh and bones. 



. . . for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye 
see me have. (Luke, 24:39.) 



Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient 
for you that I [material personality] go away: for if 
I [material personality] go not away, the Comforter 
[the realization of Spirit] will not come unto you; but 



42 arise! take thy journey. 

if I depart [the Ego is absent from the body, and 
present with Truth and Love (S. & H., p. 14)], I 
[Spirit] will send him unto yo.u. (John, 16:7.) 



JUDAH AND ISRAEE. 

The word Judah of the Bible has two distinct 
spiritual interpretations, namely : ''A corporeal material 
belief, progressing and disappearing;" and "The spirit- 
ual understanding of God and man appearing." (S. & 
H., p. 589.) When Jacob prophesied the "sceptre shall 
not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between 
his feet" (Genesis, 49:10), he foretold that the power 
should not depart from MORTAL MIND (a "corpo- 
real material belief progressing and disappearing") 
"until Shiloh come." And where in Hosea it says : 



Then shall the children of Judah and the children 
of Israel be gathered together, and appoint them- 
selves one head, and they shall come up out of the 
land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel, 

(Hosea, i:ii.) 

the word Judah has a higher significance. Jesus 
emanated from the tribe of Judah and was "born of 
Mary," while Christ "was born of God." (S. & H., p. 



APPOINTED WORK. 43 

SS2.) yisLTY, therefore, of the tribe of Judah, was the 
first to perceive the Christ idea with sufficiently pure 
spiritual realization to bring into the seeming material 
evidence her immaculate conception (*'and the Word 
was made flesh," — John, i: 14), — through the operation 
of the so-called human laws, taking form in the infant 
Jesus. 

The word Judah therefore, in the passage quoted, 
is typical of those, like Mary, who first perceive the 
Christ idea, — the Truth as revealed in Christian Science 
("The spiritual understanding of God and' man appear- 
ing"). 

While Judah has been generally accepted to mean 
the Jews, in the spiritual interpretation of the word 
it refers to no particular race, inasmuch as ''God is no 
respecter of persons." (Acts, 10:34.) The racial be- 
lief distinguishing one class from another is exclusively 
man-made, and comes purely from association, — all in 
reality being children of God. For the past forty years 
the gathering of the "dispersed of Judah from the four 
corners of the earth" (Isaiah, 11:12), is the result of 
Spirit working through avenues offering least resistance 
to Truth. These avenues at present find a large repre- 
sentation in the Jewish race, not because men call them 
Jews, but because the thought sent out into conscious- 
ness at the time of the crucifixion, — "His blood be on 



44 arise! take thy journey. 

us, and on our children" (Matthew, 27:25), — entailed 
an added persecution during the centuries to come, 
amounting in itself to a national curse; and this 
thought becoming a universal law unto itself brought 
about an inevitable suffering, — while to human sense 
unjust and cruel, in reality most salutary to 
spiritual growth. The suffering experienced through 
the death of pride, and other mortal behefs ("I 
die daily." — I. Corinthians, 15:31), but opens the 
way for Spirit to enter the consciousness and govern 
the actions of mankind. Even as the Jews are hated 
to-day, so is the time at hand when this false sense of 
contumely will be destroyed through the reflection of 
divine Love, and the descendants of Abraham numbered 
among the first to imbibe the Truth and to reflect its 
healing power to others. Then will one who Scientifi- 
cally understands MAN be "more precious than fine 
gold ; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir" 
(Isaiah, 13: 12), and "ten men ... even shall take hold 
of the skirt of him that is a Jew." (Zechariah, 8: 23.) 

The Children of Israel are those irrespective of sect,. 
race, or color, who hear the word of God, — "and they 
shall hear my voice" (John, 10: 16), — and are "chosen" 
from the rest of the world, and led to investigate and see 
the Truth in Christian Science, awakening to the under- 
standing that he or she Is-Real, — ^spiritual, and not 
material. 



appointed work. 45 

The Dry Bones, 
(genealogies.) 

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me 
out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the 
midst of the valley which was full of bones, 

And caused me to pass by them round about: and, 
behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, 
lo, they were very dry. 

And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones 
live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. 

(Ezekiel, 37-^-3') 

In the early stages of the Appointed Work, — the 
revelation of the New Jerusalem, — doubt and uncer- 
tainty surrounded the effort to trace and prove the 
many thousand descendants of the Harlem Patentees 
throughout the two centuries past. The Valley was 
in truth **full of bones," and as the Children of Israel 
were gathered ''one by one" (Isaiah, 27:12), and 
generation followed generation, the answer to the ques- 
tion, ''can these bones live?" became of vital importance 
to the successful outcome of the work. 



46 arise! take thy journey. 

Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, 
and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of 
the Lord. 



Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, 
I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall 
live: 



And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up 
flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put 
breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know 
that I am the Lord. 

So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I 
prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, 
and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 

And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh 
came up upon them, and the skin covered them 
above: but there was no breath in them. 

(Ezekiel, 37:4-8.) 

To prophesy is to "utter Truth under divine inspi- 
ration." Throughout the Appointed Work, daily for 
over two years, "Truth under divine inspiration" was 
"uttered,"— 



APPOINTED WORK. 47 

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my 
mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall 
accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in 
the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah, 55:11.) 



divine Love was reflected through the channels of thought, 
— until "the bones came together, bone to his bone," and 
"the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the 
skin covered them above." 

The thousands traced by name only, and their 
lineage proved back through ten generations to the Har- 
lem Patentees of 1666, are, as in the olden time, 
"reckoned by genealogy" (Nehemiah, 7:5), with sinews, 
flesh, and skin come up upon them, — but until located, 
have "no breath in them." 

Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, 
prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith 
the Lord God; come from the four winds, O breath, 
and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 

(Ezekiel, 37:9.) 

"Then said he unto me," Utter Truth to mortal con- 
sciousness ! Reflect divine Love, Son of man, and say 
unto mortal consciousness, "Thus saith the Lord God," 
Realize Omnipotent Mind through reflection, and send 
out love to those dead in mortal beliefs, that they may 
live ! 



48 arise! take thy journey. 

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the 
breath came into them, and they lived, and stood 
up upon their feet, an exceedingly great army. 



Then he said untp me, Son of man, these bones are 
the whole house of Israel: behold, they say. Our bones 
are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our 
parts. 

Therefore prophesy and say unto them. Thus saith 
the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open 
your graves, and cause you to come up out of your 
graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 

And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have 
opened your graves, O my people, and brought you 
up out of your graves. 



And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, 
and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye 
know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed 
it, saith the Lord. (Ezekiel, 37:10-14.) 



A little over forty thousand living members of the 
Corporation, the Town of New Harlem, stand "up upon 



APPOINTED WORK. 49 

their feet," — "an exceeding great army;" ''the whole 
house of Israel," — all children of Israel; "our bones are 
dried and our hope is lost," — cut off seemingly from 
all hope of their lineage being traced, and proved ; their 
graves to be opened, — their beliefs in death or life in 
matter removed; and coming out of their graves, — 
awakened to an understanding of life in Mind: to be 
brought into their own land, — "the land of Israel." 



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As the revelation of the New Jerusalem under 
divine direction constituted the sole motive for the re- 
covery of the Harlem rights and properties, and as all 
expectation of personal gain in an enterprise so con- 
ducted was at the very inception of the work necessarily 
eliminated, a delicate, not to say paradoxical, situa- 
tion arose as the time approached for the first announce- 
ment to the thousands of descendants of the Harlem 
Patentees. 

On the one hand, the offer to recover the Harlem 
rights and properties to the extent of overturning the 
titles to all lands above Seventy-fourth Street, in the 
City of New York, Island of Manhattan, without de- 
mand for compensation from the Harlem heirs, pre- 
sented a proposition, opposed in nature to all ordinary 
business procedure and calculated on its face to dis- 



50 arise:! take thy journey. 

courage all co-operation, on the part of the claimants to 
the lands in question, so essential to the success of the 
undertaking. On the other hand, to demand twenty-five 
per cent, of the proceeds of the recovery of the Harlem 
lands, as indicated in the announcement forwarded to 
the descendants of the original Patentees, seemed at 
first but a participation in a sacred enterprise for per- 
sonal gain alone, — a condition obviously contrary to 
the divine plan. In this dilemma an appeal, offered to 
God in silent prayer, brought answer, as in times past, 
under the inspiration to turn to the Bible for guidance, 
as found in the fourteenth verse of the thirty-second 
chapter of Jeremiah: 



Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; 
Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, 
both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; 
and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may con- 
tinue many days. 



The two conditions, the one "open" and the other 
"sealed," must manifestly remain for "many days," 
until at the meeting of the Corporation the demand for 
compensation of twenty-five per cent, should be relin- 
quished, and Ahh prospective recovery be vested in the 
rightful owners ( . . . "taking nothing of the gen- 



APPOINTED WORK. 5 1 

tiles," — III. John, 7), — the members of the Corporate 
body, the Town of New Harlem. 

Of the ''seventy weeks determined upon thy people 
and upon thy holy city," Daniel wrote: 



Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and 
upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to 
make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for 
iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, 
and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint 
the most Holy. (Daniel, 9:24.) 



As a guide in the Appointed Work, just seventy weeks 
from Christmas day, 1901, the date of the twelfth leading, 
to the first day of May, 1903, the first notice in the form 
of a circular letter with the Authority to call a Meeting 
enclosed, was sent out to many thousands of descendants 
of the Harlem Patentees, — the Children of Israel. 



The Prophecies of Daniel. 



And four great beasts came up from the sea, 
diverse one from another; — (Daniel, 7:3.) 



52 arise;! take thy journey. 

the four strong reflectors of spiritual thought in the world 
to-day, — . . . ''four kings, which shall arise out of 
the earth" (Daniel, 7: 17), — the Holy One of Israel; the 
Head of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York 
City; and the Two Witnesses. 

The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I 
beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was 
lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the 
feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 

(Daniel, 7:4.) 

This fourth stanza pictures the Lion of the tribe 
of Judah (Revelation, 5:5), — the Revelator of Truth 
in this age, — sustained by powerful spiritual thought, 
through divine realizaton (''eagle's wings"), in the 
battle to overcome the seeming forces of mortal 
mind. The struggle over, — the "wings thereof . . . 
plucked," having risen above all materiality, — the Lion 
is "lifted up from the earth," and stands to-day before the 
world with undaunted courage, — living and demon- 
strating the divine Principle of life eternal. 

And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, 
and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three 
ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and 
they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 

(Daniel, 7:5.) 



APPOINTED WORK. 53 

After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, 
which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; 
the beast had also four heads; and dominion was 
given to it. (Daniel, 7:6.) 



The two beasts mentioned in the above passages 
typify two women in our midst to-day, — the Head of 
First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, and 
one of the Two Witnesses. A fourth beast wilLbe readily 
recognized in the present trend of current events. 



After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a 
fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong ex- 
ceedingly ; and it had great iron teeth : it devoured and 
brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet 
of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were 
before it; and it had ten horns. (Daniel, 7:7.) 



The "dreadful and terrible" fourth beast, seen in the 
*'night visions," is even now speaking "great words 
against the most High ;'* is seeking to "change times 
and laws," — to "be given into his hand until a time 
and times and the dividing of time" (Daniel, 7:25), 
through certain states and stages of consciousness ; 



54 arise! take thy journey. 

and, as the name implies, the ''spiritless" champion 
of mortal mind, with iron teeth, — will power, — is to-day 
effecting cures through the operation of ''one belief 
casting out another." (S. & H., p. 12.) 



. . . Ellas truly shall first come, and restore all 
things. (Matthew, 17:11.) 



Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before 
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. 

(Malachi, 4:5.) 



The coming of Elias (Elijah), does not refer to per- 
sonality. 

Elias means prophecy. (S. & H., p. 585.) Prophecy 
must first be fulfilled. Christian Science — the Truth — 
must first come to leaven consciousness and awaken 
mankind to the fact that mortal mind is losing its so- 
called power. This awakening will be accompanied by 
indescribable suffering (the opening of the fourth seal, 
— Revelation, 6:7), resulting from the dying out and 
destruction of mortal beliefs, — "Tribulation such as 
was not since the beginning of the world to this time, 
no, nor ever shall be." (Matthew, 24: 21.) 



APPOINTED WORK. 55- 



I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up 
among them another little horn, before whom there 
were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : 
and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a 
man, and a mouth speaking great things. 

(Daniel, 7:8.) 



The 'little horn." — Little strength in spiritual under- 
standing at first, but growing constantly into higher and 
greater realization of the omnipotence of God, — Good. 



I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the 
Ancient of days did sit, whose garrtient was white 
as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: 
his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as 
burning fire. (Daniel, 7:9.) 



A fiery stream issued and came forth from before 
him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and 
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: 
the judgment was set, and the books were opened. 

(Daniel, 7:10.) 



56 arise! take thy journey. 

The Prophet here beholds the thrones — the world, 
the flesh, and evil — "cast down" or overcome; and 
perceives that the spiritual Leader of the twentieth 
century, dwelling in the City of Harmony, and clothed 
in the white undivided garment of Christ, "did sit;" — 
rested in the spiritual consciousness of Love, sustained 
by the thousands upon thousands of God-thoughts, in- 
asmuch as the "judgment was set and the books were 
opened," — "Truth is revealed. It only needs to be prac- 
tised." (S. &H., p. 174.) 



I beheld then because of the voice of the great 
words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the 
beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to 
the burning flame. (Daniel, 7:11.) 



As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their 
dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged 
for a season and time. Daniel, 7:12.) 



Daniel's spiritual realization enabled him to see the 
ultimate outcome of the battle between Truth and error, 



APPOINTED WORK. 57 

where the beast, or mortal mind, is slain, — the false con- 
cept being destroyed by the consuming fire of Love. 
Error resists the surrender of beHef of life in matter. 



I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the 
Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came 
to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near 
before him. (Daniel, 7:13-) 



And there was given him dominion, and glory, and 
a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, 
should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting do- 
minion,, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom 
that which shall not be destroyed. (Daniel, 7:14.) 



The Prophet mentally discerned not only the meet- 
ing of the Son of man with the Ancient of days, but 
God's law fulfilled in the gathering of all nations under 
One Head, — "one fold, and one shepherd." (John 
10: 16.) 



58 ARISn:! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

But the saints of the most High shall take the king- 
dom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever 
and ever. (Daniel, 7:18.) 



Following the description of the four beasts and 
their different qualities of thought; the struggle, as de- 
picted in the ''casting down" of the thrones, — the false 
material dominion ; the sitting of the Ancient of days ; 
the judgment and the opening of the books; comes the 
promise of the kingdom to the Christian Scientists, — the 
Saints of the most High. 



But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away 
his [mortal mind's] dominion, to consume and to de- 
stroy it unto the end. (Daniel. 7:26.) 



And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness 
of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be 
given to the people of the saints of the most High, 
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all 
dominions shall serve and obey him. (Daniel, 7:27.) 

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APPOINTED WORK. 59 

Once again Daniel lifted np his eyes and saw, as on 
a canvas, the battle of Truth against error. 



Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, 
there stood before the river a ram which had two 
horns: and the two horns were high; but one was 
higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 

(Daniel, 8:3.) 



The two horns of the ram. — The "two individual 
natures in one;" the "compounded spiritual individual- 
ity" (S. & H., p. 577); . . . *'the two anointed ones, 
that stand by the Lord of the whole earth" (Zechariah, 
4 : 14) ; the Two Witnesses ; "the two olive trees, and 
the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth" 
(Revelation, 11 : 3, 4) ; the two horns of the ram stand- 
ing before the river, — the Holy One of Israel, the channel 
for the highest spiritual thought of to-day ; of which one 
"came up [embraced Christian Science] last." 



I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, 
and southward; so that no beasts might stand before 
him, neither was there any that could deliver out of 
his hand; but he did according to his will, and became 
great. (Daniel, 8:4.) 



6o arise! take thy journey. 

And again, pouring through the Two Witnesses 
or "two horns," — the ram, — the light of Truth, rising in 
the East, is seen ''pushing westward, northward, and 
southward." 



And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came 
from the west on the face of the whole earth, and 
touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable 
horn between his eyes. (Daniel, 8:5.) 



And he came to the ram that had two horns, which 
I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him 
in the fury of his power. (Daniel, 8:6.) 



And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he 
was moved with choler against him, and smote the 
ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no 
power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him 



APPOINTED WORK. 6 1 

down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and 
there was none that could deliver the ram out of his 
hand. (Daniel, 8:7.) 



Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when 
he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it 
came up four notable ones toward the four winds of 
heaven. (Daniel, 8:8.) 



And out of one of them came forth a little horn, 
which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and 
toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 

(Daniel, 8:9.) 



And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and 
it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the 
ground, and stamped upon them. (Daniel, 8:10.) 



As the ram pushes westward against the forces of 
error, behold ''an he goat" with ''a notable horn between 
his eyes" (hypnotism, — the illusive force of mortal mind)^ 



62 arise! take thy journey. 

comes ''from the West" (the opposite of Truth), "touch- 
ing not the ground" (being mental) ; and smites the 
ram, breaking his two horns ; — a mental assassination 
("he shall be broken without hand," — Daniel, 8:25) 
prophesied and further described in Revelation, 11:7. 



And the "he goat" prevails but for a short time 
only, — error risen to its height, destroys itself. The 
"little horn" comes forth out of one of the "four notable 
ones," — the "Branch" grows out of the roots of the "rod 
out of the stem of Jesse" (Isaiah, 11 :i), — and waxes 
"exceeding great" (grows strong in the realization of 
divine Love) toward the "pleasant land," — the New 
Jerusalem. 



Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the 
host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, 
and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 

(Daniel, 8:11.) 



And an host was given him against the daily sacri- 
fice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the 
truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. 

(Daniel, 8:12.) 



APPOINTED WORK. 63 



Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint 
said unto that certain saint which spake, How long 
shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and 
the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanc- 
tuary and the host [daily sacrifice] to be trodden 
under foot? (Daniel, 8:13.) 



As demonstration follows demonstration, and the 
world sees the practical illustration of the power of God 
as reflected through man, the ''daily sacrifice" — time 
sacrificed daily by mortals in the universal practice of 
prayer to a personal, corporeal God ("Whom therefore 
ye ignorantly worship," — Acts, 17:23), always looked 
upon as the Truth — will be taken away; and the "sanc- 
tuary" — this belief in mortal consciousness universally 
worshiped — will be "cast down." Spiritual power will 
be given in the warfare against this ignorance of the age, 
and the "transgression of desolation" — transgression 
of the true worship, spreading desolation — will be 
"trodden under foot;" — the world rising above the slav- 
ery of mortal beliefs through spiritual understanding, 
learning to reflect divine Love, and worshiping "the 
Father in spirit and in truth." (John, 4: 23.) 



64 arise! take thy journey. 

And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three 
hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. 

(Daniel, 8:14.) 



The third verse of the eleventh chapter of Revela- 
tion indicates the measure of time of a thousand, two 
hundred and three score days (three years, five and 
a half months) elapsing between December, 1906, — the 
coming of the Son of man (Matthew, 24:27), — 
and the time when the mental assassination of the Two 
Witnesses, as described by Daniel in the seventh verse 
above quoted, is to occur. 

To this period of three years, five and a half 
months, the Prophet in the fourteenth verse adds a fur- 
ther period of two thousand three hundred days ' (a 
little over six years), when the belief in a personal, cor- 
poreal God will be destroyed in the universal conscious- 
ness, to be supplanted by the understanding that God, 
as Spirit, must be reflected mentally; and prophesies 
that within one thousand two hundred and ninety days 
from the ending of the six-year period mentioned (three 
years and a half thereafter), ''the abomination that 
maketh desolate" (Daniel, 12:11) will be ''set up," — 
the rule of Spirit, an abomination to the human (mortal 
mind), w411 be recognized. . . . "Surely I come quickly." 
(Revelation, 22:20.) 



APPOINTED WORK. 65 

The Apostle John, in the eleventh verse of the 
twenty-first chapter of his Gospel, writes of the univer- 
sal acknowledgment of Christian Science (Truth), in 
an allegorical reference to the number of fish caught 
in the net by Simon Peter, — typifying the number of 



Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full 
of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and 
for all there were so many, yet was not the net 
broken. (John, 21:11.) 



In the one hundred and fifty-third generation from 
Adam (the generation of Queen Victoria being the one 
lumdred and fiftieth, — Poole's Anglo Israel), Christian 
Science will be universally acknowledged as the Truth, 
— "yet was not the net broken" (more work still to be 
done), "the end is not yet." (Matthew, 24:6.) 

The Christ-Principle,, universally acknowledged at 
the expiration of the thirteen years, as above indicated, 
will not, however, be universally demonstrated until the 
year six thousand from Adam (ninety-four years from 
the Coming of the Son of man, — December, 1906), and, 
for the thousand years thereafter, — The Millennium, — 
mortals will enjoy heaven (harmony) on earth, with 
Satan bound. (Revelation, 20:2.) 



66 arise:! take: thy journey. 

The ram which thou sawest having two horns are 
the kings of Media and Persia. * (Daniel, 8:20.) 



The words Media and Persia (the Two Witnesses 
standing in the reaHzation of divine Love as firm as the 
law of the Medes and Persians) are used by the Prophet to 
turn the thought of the world away from the true mean- 
ing of the prophecy until the hidden meaning is dis- 
cerned at the appointed time. So again, in the following 
verse, the mention of the King of Grecia directs the 
thought back to ancient countries. 



And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the 
great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. 

(Daniel, 8:21.) 



This rough goat is a type of the highly cultivated 
(Grecia) avenues for mortal mind, — the king, or ruling 
influence, with mortals before awakening to the truth of 
being. 



APPOINTED WORK. 67 

Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for 
it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but 
not in his power. (Daniel, 8:22.) 



Thanks be to God for the glorious promise that 
the power of mortal mind is temporal, and that spiritual 
power will prevail. 



And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the 
transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce 
countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall 
stand up. (Daniel, 8:23.) 



68 arise! take thy journey. 



CHAPTER III. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 



THE TWELVE LEADINGS. 



I. DEUTERONOMY, IO:iI. 

And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before 
the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which 
I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. 



II. JEREMIAH, 32 : 44. 

Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, 
and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and 



STORY IN DETAIL. 69 

in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and 
in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, 
and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity 
to return, saith the Lord. 



III. I. SAMUEL, 26: 25. 

Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: 
thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. 
So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. 



IV. I. sa:\iuel, 3 : 20. 

And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that 
Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord. 



V. DEUTERONOMY, 9:1-3. 

Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to 
go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, 
cities great and fenced up to heaven. 



A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom 
thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say. Who can 
stand before the children of Anak! 



7© arise! take thy journey. 

Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he 
which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall 
destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: 
so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as 
the Lord hath said unto thee. 



VI. II. KINGS^ 21 : 8. 

Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out 
of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will ob- 
serve to do according to all that I have commanded them, 
and according to all the law that my servant Moses com- 
manded them. 



VII. JOSHUA, 13: 6. 

All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto 
Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out 
before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto 
the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee. 



VIII. ROMANS, 8:30, 31. 

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: 
and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he 
justified, them he also glorified. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 71 

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, 
who can be against us? 



IX. ISAIAH, 66 : 2. 

'For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those 
things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, 
even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth 
at my word. 



X. DEUTERONOMY, 28: I3. 

And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; 
and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; 
if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy 
God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do 
them . 



XI. I. KINGS, II : 36, -^y. 

And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my 
servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the 
city which I have chosen me to put my name there. 



And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all 
that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. 



72 arise! take thy journey. 

XII. JUDGES, 10 : I. 
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola . . . 

GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE. 

GENESIS, 49 : 10. 

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver 
from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall 
the gathering of the people be. 

APPOINTMENT OF ONE HEAD. 

(See frontispiece.) 

HOSEA, I : II. 

Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel 

be gathered together, and appoint themselves one 'fezieei. -God's 

sowing of" seed. 
head, and they shall come up out of the land: for 

great shall be the day of Jezreel. 

KINGDOM BROKEN. 

DANIEL, 11:4. 

And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, 
and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and 



STORY IN DETAIL. 73 

not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he 
ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others 
beside those. 



THE KING OF THE SOUTH. 

DANIEL, 11:5. 



And the king of the south shall be strong, and King of the 

South. — The 

one of his princes; and he shall be strong above Head of First 

'^ ° / Church of 

him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a Christ, Scien- 
tist, New 
great dominion. York Cit5^ 



GOD'S COMMAND. 

ZECHARIAH, 2:7. 

Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of 
Babylon. 



MICAH. 5:3. 

Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she 
which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his 
brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. 



74 arise! take thy journey. 



THE KING OF THE NORTH. 

DANIEL, II : 6. 

And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; 

for the king's daughter of the south shall come to King of the 
** ** North.— The 

the king of the north to make an agreement . . . Holy One of 

THE FOUR BEASTS— IN DANIEL. 

DANIEL, 7 : 3- 
And four great beasts came up from the sea, ^p^st.— 

° ^ strength of 

diverse one from another. thought. 

DANIEL, 7 : 4. 

The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings iLioji.— The 

Holy One of 
I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and Israel. 

it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet 

as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 

DANIEL, 7:5. 

And behold another beast, a second, ' like to a Bear -The 

Head of lirst 
bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had Chufch of 

^ Christ, Scien- 

Teethofit.- three ribs in the mouth of it between tist, New York 
Willpower. City. 

the teeth of it: and they said thus unto Three ribs.— 

it, Arise, devour much flesh. and Love. ' 



STORY IN DETAIL. 75 

DANIEL, 7 : 6. 



After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leop- Leopard.— One 

Four Wings.- ard, which had upon the back of it witnesses.^ 

Double 

amount of four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four 



spirituality. 



heads; and dominion was given to it. 



A FOURTH BEAST. 



DANIEL, 7 : 7- 



After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth 
beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceed- Opponent of 

0-tiristi^ii 

ingly ; and it had great iron teeth : it devoured and Science. 
brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: 
and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and 
it had ten horns. 



WOUNDED TO DEATH. 

REVELATION, I3: 3- 

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; 
and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered 
after the beast. 



76 ARISE ! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM. 

DANIEL, 2: 36-45. 

This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation there- 
of before the king. 

Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven 
hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 



And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of 

the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine 

hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Head of gold. 

—Mortal mmd. 



Thou art this head of gold. 



And after thee shall arise another kingdom in- Another 
dom.-'ifx^" ^^"°^ *° ^^^^' ^"^ ^^°*^^^ ^^'^^ ^^"S- pSfgaSyT 

hundred. dom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the 

three score 

and six. (Rev- earth 

elation, 13: 18.) 



And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as Fourth king- 

° ° uoiH A fourth 

iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and };^^^^ (Daniel, 
subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall 
it break in pieces and bruise. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 77 

And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' 
clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but 
there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, i™^ mixed 

*=* with may 

forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with^iay-Biind 

raitli and 

miry clay. hypnotism. 



And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of 
clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly 
broken. 

And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they 

Not cleave one shall mingle themselves with the seed of men : 

to another.— 

Not being of but they shall not cleave one to another, even as 

One Mmd. 

iron is not mixed with clay. 

And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set 
up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: setupaking- 
and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, Ja^s^fencl. 
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these 
kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. 



Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the 
mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, 
the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God 
hath made known to the king what shall come to pass here- 
after: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof 
sure. 



78 arise! take thy journey. 

THE FOURTH BEAST. 

DANTEIv, 7:8. 

I considered the horns, and, behold, there came ^ .^^, ^ 

* Little horn.— 

up among them another Uttle horn, before whom The man child. 

there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: 

and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and 

a mouth speaking great things. 

D.\NIEL, 7: 17. 

These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which 
shall arise out of the earth. 



THE FOUR BEASTS— IN REVELATION. 

REVELATION, 4 : 6-8. 

. . . and round about the throne, were four beasts full of 
eyes before and behind. 

And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast 
like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the 
fourth beast was like a flying eagle. 




VISION OF EZEKIEL— RAPHAEL. 

Attention having been called to this picture, the study of the four beasts, 
spoken of by Daniel, John, and Ezekiel, followed. 

The order of position of the four beasts, as described by the prophets, indi- 
cates that the man "shall grow up out of his place." (Zechariah, 6:12.) 
In Daniel, (7:8) the man is fourth; in Revelation, (4:7) third; in Reve- 
lation, (2:8) second; in Ezekiel, ( i : 10) first. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 79 



Six wings. — 

And the four beasts had each of them six wings Life Truth, 

° and Love, and 

about him . . . ?^^if ^^i*/^' 

truth, and love 



THE FOUR BEASTS— IN EZEKIEL. 

EZEKIEL, 1:5. 

Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four 
living creatures. ... 

EZEKIEL, I : 10. 

As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of 
a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four 
had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the 
face of an eagle. 



JUDAH'S SCEPTRE BROKEN. 

DANIEL, 8:8-11. 



. . , the great horn was broken; and for it ^^'^^^,^0™-" 

Mortal mmd. 
came up four notable ones . . . 



8o arise;! take: thy journey. 

THE LITTLE HORN. 



And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which 
waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and to- Pleasant 

Land.— New- 
ward the east and toward the pleasant land. Jerusalem. 



And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast 
down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and 
stamped upon them. 



DAILY SACRIFICE TAKEN AWAY. 



Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of P^i^y sacri- 

** ^ fice.— Time 

the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken sacrificed daily 

"^ "^ by mortals m 

away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast ^oJ^^^^amod 
down. 

THE BRANCH. 



ISAIAH, II : 1-5. 

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, 
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 



STORY IN DETAIL. 8 1 

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of 
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, 
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 



And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of 
the Lord; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, 
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 



But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove 
with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall' smite the 
earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his 
lips shall he slay the wicked. 

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faith- 
fulness the girdle of his reins. 

JEREMIAH, 23 : 5. 

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto 
David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and pros- 
per, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 

JEREMIAH, 33: 15. 

In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of 
righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute 
judgment and righteousness in the land. 



82 arise:! take thy journey, 

zechariah, 3:8. 

Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows 
that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, be- 
hold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. 

ZECHARIAH, 6: 12. 

And speak unto him, saying. Thus speaketh the Lord of 
hosts, saying. Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; 
and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the 
temple of the Lord. 

EPHRAIM— THE FIRST BORN. 

GENESIS, 49 : 22, 24. 
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough Joseph 

(Ephraim).— 

by a well; whose branches run over the wall: Christian 

Scientists 
(renamed). 

. . . (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 

GENESIS, 48 : 14. 

And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon 
Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon 



STORY IN DETAIL. 83 

Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh 
was the firstborn. 

JEREMIAH, 31:9, 18-20. 

. . . I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou 
hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unac- 
customed to the yoke : turn thou me, and I shall be turned ; for 
thou art the Lord my God. 

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I 
was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, 
even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my 
youth. 

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I 
spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: there- 
fore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy 
upon him, saith the Lord. 

PSALM 80: I, 2. 

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph 
like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine 
forth. 



84 arise! take thy journey. 

Ephraim.— 
Followers of 
the "t'irst- 

Benjamin.- Before Ephraim and Benjamin and bom "-chris- 
Harlem De- tian Scientists 

scendants,- Manasseh stir up thy strength, and iiie^^^ed by ^ 
the Lost o » ^^Q Messiah). 

Tribe. come and save us. 

Manasseh. — 
Protestants. 



JOSHUA. 



ZECHARIAH, 3 I 3. 

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood 
before the angel. 

ZECHARIAH, 3:2. 

... is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? 

DANIEL, 4: 17. 



. . . that the living may know that the most High ruleth in 
the Kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, 
and setteth up over it the basest of men. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 85 

SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 

II. ESDRAS, 13:29, 31, 32. 

Behold, the days come, when the most High will begin to 
deliver them that are upon the earth. 

And one shall undertake to fight against another, one city 
against another, one place against another, one people against 
another, and one realm against another. 

And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, 
and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and 
then shall my Son be declared . . . 

WORLD ASTONISHED. 

II. ESDRAS, 13:25, 26, 30, 52. 

This is the meaning of the vision: Whereas thou sawest a 
man coming up from the midst of the sea: 



The same is he whom God the Highest hath By his own 

** self shall de- 

kept a great season, which by his own self shall }ll^^--~. 

'^ ° "^ Through re- 

deliver his creature : and he shall order them that ^}^^^^^^ ^S 

Truth shall 
are left behind. open the seven 



86 arise! take thy journey.^ 

And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell 
on the earth. 



And he said unto me, Like as thou canst neither seek out 
nor know the things that are in the deep of the sea: even so 
can no man upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, 
but in the daytime. 



II. ESDRAS, 5 : 6. 

And even he shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell 
upon the earth . . . 



A PROPHET AMONG THEM. 

EZEKiEL, 33 : 33. 

And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall 
they know that a prophet hath been among them. 



ISAIAH, 42 : 9. 

Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things 
do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 87 

CALLED BY NAME. 

ISAIAH, 43: I. 

But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and 
he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed 
thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 

SURNAMED. 

ISAIAH, 45:4. 

For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have 

even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed Surnamed 

^ ^ thee.— Tola. 

thee, though thou hast not known me. (Judges. lO: 1.) 

FLESHLY TYPES. 



ZECHARIAH. 13 : 6. 

And one shall say unto him. What are those wounds in 
thine hands? Then he shall answer. Those with which I 
was wounded in the house of my friends. 



88 ARISi:! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

FACIAL CHARACTERISTIC. 

DANiEiv, 8 : 23. 

And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the trans- 
gressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, 
and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 

REWARD— NOT OF MAN. 

ISAIAH, 45: 13. 

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all 
his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my cap- 
tives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord. 

III. JOHN, 7. 
. . . taking nothing of the Gentiles. 

SEVENTY WEEKS. 



DANIEL, 9 : 24. 
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people Seyentyweeks. 

'' r J r tr — FromDecem- 

and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgres- ^^r,^^^°^y- 

rittii, 1901, — 

sion, and to make an end of sins, and to make dfte of the last 

' "leading,"— to 

reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in ever- May first 1903, 

^ ■" ° when Notifica- 

lasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision tion was sent 
and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Descendants. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 89 

ZERUBBABEL AND JOSHUA STIRRED. 

HAGGAI, I : 14, 15. 
Zerubbabei.- And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerub- 

TheHoly One ^ ^ 

of Israel. babel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, 
and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, 
and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came 
and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, 



In the fourth and twentieth day of the Second year - 

■^ From date of 

Sixth month.- sixth month, in the second year appointment of 

June 1905. "^ One Head, 

of Darius the king. November 

Darius. -Lord. ^*i^*"=» '•"'^ ^'"^S- thirtieth, 1903. 



STREET REBUILT. 



DANIEL, 9 : 25. 



Know therefore and understand, that from the Going forth of 

thecommand- 
Seven weeks going forth of the commandment to pen^— Send- 

and three- mg torth of 

score and two restore and to build Jerusalem unto Notification 

weeks.— A to Descend- 

" full 'year's the Messiah the Prince shall be seven ants on May 

round of first, 1903. 

weeks, plus weeks, and three score and two weeks: street.-God's 

sixty-two from -^ay of bring- 

May first, 1903, the Street shall be built again, and the ing up the 
-the second ,, subject again, 

week m July, wall, even m troublous times. wail.- 

Opposition. 



90 ARISE ! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

WARFARE WITH THE SAINTS. ' 

DANIEL, 7: 21, 22. 

I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and 
prevailed against them; 

Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment ^^^ient of 

■^ » J & Days— The 

was given to the saints of the most High; and the Holy Oue of 

Israel. 

time came that the saints possessed the Kingdom. 

WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CHURCH. 

DANIEL, 9: 26. 
Not for him- And after three score and two Cut off -with- 

self. — Not the drawal from 

Spiritual idea, weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but First church of 

but human Christ, Scien- 

personality. not for himself . . . tist, New York 

City.— July 
twenty-second, 
3905. the week 
following the 
'■second'"week;. 

WEEK AT MARBLEHEAD. 



DANIEL, 9: 2^. 

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one 
One week.- week: and in the midst of the week Midst of the 

July twenty- week.-July 

fourth to he shall cause the sacrifice and thet^^^nty- 

thirty-first, ^, . ^ r .u seventh. 1905. 

1905. oblation to cease, and for the over- sacrifice.— 

Time sacri- 

spreading of abominations he shall make it deso-ficed. 

late, even until the consummation, and that worship of the 

determined shall be poured upon the desolate. kHSrai^^^^^^ 

Churches. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 9 1 

THE BETRAYAL. 

ZECHARIAH, II : 7-14. 



And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, p^oj. ^f t^e 
O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two f^f of~^Jkers. 
Beauty.— A staves; the one I called Beauty, and rp„^ „4.j,„„„ _ 

woman. ' •" i wo staves. 

Bands.-A the Other I called Bands; and I fed side^l'Svinl 
Mnder of^con- ^^^ ^^^^ together. 

lawyer. 



Three shepherds also I cut off in one month ; Three shep- 

^ herds —The 

and my soul loathed them, and their soul also ab- betrayers,— 

•^ ' ••Beauty, ' and 

horred me. -Bands.'-and 

a colleague. 



Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; 
and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest 
eat every one the flesh of another. 



And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that 
I might break my covenant which I had made with all the 
people. 



The word of And it was broken in that day: and so the poor 

the Lord. — r 1 n ■, , • -, 1 , . 

Biblicailead- of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was 

ing,— Deuter- , r , -r 1 

onomy. 22:10. the word of the Lord. 



92 arise:! take thy journey. 

Give me my And I said unto them, If ye think weighed for 
price; if not , . . , .. my price 

forbear.— Be good, give me my price ; and if not, thirty pieces 
honest or . , « , . , , r of silver.— 

sever relations, forbear. So they weighed for my The Betrayal. 

price thirty pieces of silver. 



And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the Cast it unto 

,, . , _ . , .the potter.— 

potter: a goodly price that I was priced at oi Assignment 
them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and work of trac- 

r , -r , ing Descend- 
east them to the potter in the house of the Lord, ants to the 

genealogist of 
that name. 



Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even q^^ asmider.— 
ands, that I might bi 
tween Judah and Israel. 



Bands, that I might break the brotherhood be- ^f^n^^ ''^^^' 



COMING OF THE SON OF MAN. 

MICAH, 4: 9, 10. 

Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? 
is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a 
woman in travail. 



Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, 
like a woman in travail . . . 



STORY IN DETAIL. 93. 

REVELATION, 12: 5. 

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all 
nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto 
God, and to his throne. 

MATTHEW, 24 : 27. 

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth 
even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of 
man be. 

LUKE, 17:25. 

But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this, 
generation. 

DATE OF THE BIRTH. 

DANIEL, 12: 12. 



End of "forty Blessed is he that waiteth, and prom the go- 
llyinSeln- cometh to the thousand three hundred ^ftmSiol 
^^oT;?ne^^ol'^and five and thirty days. KriSl 

Israel, -1866- time, 1906. 

1906. 



94 ARISE ! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

CALL TO CONCORD. 

DANIEL, 7 : 13. 

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like Ni^ht visions. 

Clouds of the Son of man came with the clouds ni^^Insp'^^^' 

heaven. —Pro- nai sense. 

tecting^ spir- of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and 
itual thoughts. 

they brought him near before him. 



THE TRUTH, AND THE : MAN CHILD REVEALED. 



REVEI.AT10N, 5 : I, 5, 7, 8, 9. 



Right hand.— 
It is within 

And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the power 

of the Holy 

the throne a book written within and on the One of Israel 

to reveal the 

backside, sealed with seven seals. Truth, and to 

bring torth the 
man child. 
Sealed with 
seven seals. 



LOOSENING OF THE SEALS. 

. . . behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of 
David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the 
seven seals thereof. 



STORY IX DETAIL. 95 

THE TRUTH POWER. 

Took the book 

out of the 

right hand.— And he came and took the book out of the right 

Received the 

Truth-power hand of him that sat upon the throne. 

through the 

Holy One of 

Israel. 

DOMINION GIVEN. 

And when he had taken the book . . . 
. . . they sung a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to 
take the book, and to open the seals thereof . . . 

DANIEL. 11:3. 

And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with 
great dominion, and do according to his will. 



DANIEL, 7: 14. 

And there was given him dominion, and glory, For Christ, 
, , . , , ,, , . , , God's idea, 

and a kmgdom, that all people, nations, and Ian- wiii eventually 
, . , . . . rule all nations 

guages, should serve him: his dominion is an ever- and peoples— 
,.,,,, , imperatively, 

lasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and absolutely. 

his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, divine Science. 

(S. & H.. p. 

565. ) 
DANIEL, 11:8. 

. . . and he shall continue more years than the king of the 
north. 



96 arise! take thy journey. 

RETURN TO THE CHURCH. 

JEREMIAH, 30: 10. 



. . . Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest. Shall return.— 
•* * To First 

and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. Church of 

Christ, Scien- 
tist, New York 
City. 



THE HEAD OF THE CORNER. 

MATTHEW, 21 : 42. 

The builders.— 
The Holy One 
of Israel, and 
_, ,.,,,.,-. . 1 , the Head of 

. . . The stone which the builders rejected, the First Church of 

. , , , , r , Christ, Scien- 

same is become the head of the corner . . . tist, New York 

City. (Zech- 
arjah, 5:9-11.) 

VISION OF SOLOMON. 

ECCI.ESIASTES, 9: 14-17. 

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there 
came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great 
bulwarks against it: 

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his 
wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same 
poor man. 



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STORY IN DETAIL. -97 

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless 
the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not 
heard. 

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the 
cry of him that ruleth among fools. 



ONE ONLY PATH. 

II. ESDRAS, 7 : 3-9. 

And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The 
sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great. 

But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river ; 

Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule 
it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come 
into the broad? 

There is also another thing; A city is builded, and set upon 
a broad field, and is full of all good things: 

The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous 
place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and 
on the left a deep water: 



98 arise:! take thy journey. 

And one only path between them both, even between the 
fire and the water, so small that there could but one man goi 
there at once. 

If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, 
if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he 
receive this inheritance? 



OPENING OF THE SEALS. 

REVEIvATlON, 6: 1-6. 

The first seal.— 
When touched 

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the impersonaUy 

^ by Truth, 

seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, ^^^^ugh the 

Holy One of 

one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. J?.^^?^;r ^^^ 

■^ ** First Beast. 



And I saw, and beheld a white horse: and he that sat on 
him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he 
went forth conquering, and to conquer. 



And when he had opened the second seal, I The second 

seal.— When 

heard the second beast say, Come and see. led to the 

Second Beast. 
—The Head of 

And there went out another horse that was of Christ, 

Scientist. 
red ... New York City. 



STORY IX DETAIL. 99 

The third seal. And when he had opened the third seal, I 

-When the 

Third Beast— heard the third beast say, Come and see. And 

the man child- 
was led to the I beheld, and lo a black horse; and Black horse.- 
Fourth Beast, Law of revers- 

-the other he that sat on him had a pair of ai. -animal 

Witness. ma^etism,— 

balances in his hand. met, and 

overcome. 



And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, 
Three meas- A measure of wheat for a penny, and ^ measure of 

ures of barley wheat for a 

for a penny.— three measures of barley for a penny ; penny. -Equiv- 

FuU equivalent c j alent amount 

of substance and see thou hurt not the oil and the of spirituality 

would be the would be the 

cost. wine. cost. 



THE TWO WITNESSES. 

ISAIAH, 43 : 10. 

Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom 
I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and under- 
stand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, 
neither shall there be after me. 

REVELATION, 11:3. 

Three j^ears. 

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, ?^?f ^°^^ ^^' 
and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred ^^om the date 

J ^ ^ J of the Coming 

and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. o^ the Son of 

■^ man, -Decem- 

ber. 1906. 



LOFC. 



lOO ARISE ! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 



ZECHARIAH, 4: II. 

. . . What are these two olive trees upon the right side 
of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? 



ZECHARIAH, 4: I4. 

Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand 
by the Lord of the whole earth. 



THE RAM WITH TWO HORNS. 

DANIEL, 8 : 3-7. 

Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there 
River.— Chan- stood before the river a ram which Ram.— Two 

nel through ludividual 

which flows had two horns: and the two horns matures in one. 
the highest (S. &H.,p. 

realization of were high; but one was higher than 577.) 

Truth, -the ^ ' ^ 

Holy One of the Other, and the higher came up Came up last. 
Israel. —Embraced 

last. Christian 

Science last. 

I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and south- 
ward; SO that no beasts might stand before him, neither was 
there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did ac- 
cording to his will, and became great. 



STORY IN DETAIL. lOI 

And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the 

West- "^®^* °" *^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^® ^^°^® earth, Touched not 

opposite. ^"^ touched not the ground: and the gg^^^^e^^tal 
goat had a notable horn between his 
eyes. 

And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had 
seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury 
of his power. 

MENTAL ASSASSINATION. 

And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved 

with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his 

two horns: and there was no power in the ram to Cast him down 

to the ground. 

stand before him, but he cast him down to the - Mental as- 
sassination of 

ground, and stamped upon him : and there was i^® J{^°_^. jj" 



none that could deliver the ram out of his stall be broken 

without hand.'' 
hand. (Daniel, 8:25.) 



REVELATION, 11:4. 

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks 
standing before the God of the earth. 

REVELATION, II : 8. 

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great 
city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, §^^^jej.^~ 
where also our Lord was crucified. saiem. 



I02 ARISE ! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

DEATH OVERCOME. 

REVELATION, II : II . 

And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God 
entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great 
fear fell upon them which saw them. 

ACCUSER CAST DOWN. 



REVELATION, 12: lO, II. 

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come 
salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the 
power of his Christ : for the accuser of our Our brethren. 

'^ —The Two 

brethren is cast down, which accused them before witnesses. . 
our God day and night. 



And they overcame him by the blood of the^ord of then- 

•^ ■^ testimony. — 

Blood of the i^amb, and by the word of their testi- P^.^'^f^vr' 

Lamb.— * j fleeted by them 

The Christ mony; and they loved not their lives as Witnesses. 
unto the death. 




FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, NEW YORK CITY. 



STORY IN DETAIL. IO3 

THE TWO WOMEN. 

ZECHARIAH^ 5:9. 

Two women.— 
The Holy One 
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, of Israel, and 
*^ "^ the Head of 

behold, there came out two women, and the wind First Church 

of Christ, 
was in their wings ... ' Scientist, New 

1l ork City. 

THE HOUSE IN THE LAND. 

ZECHARIAH, 5 : II. 

The land of 
. , , , , ^ , . Shinar.— The 

And he said unto me, To build it an house in Land of two 

rivers.— East 
the land of Shinar . . . and Hudson. 

HAGGAI, 2 : 3. 

Who is left among you that saw this house in her first 
glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes in 
comparison of it as nothing? 

PROMISES FULFILLED. 

JEREMIAH, 30:3. 

For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring 
again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the 
Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave 
to their fathers, and they shall possess it. 



I04 arise! take thy journey. 

JEWS RECALLED. 

ISAIAH, II : 12. 

Nearly seven 
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, J^undred tnou- 

sand Jews live 
and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and i^i New York 

to-day,— every 

gather together the dispersed of Judah from the fourth person 

° IT J jj^ ^Yie Borough 

four corners of the earth. of Manhattan 

being a Jew or 
a Jewess. 

GENEALOGICAL TRACING. 



ISAIAH, 2y: 12. 

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall 

beat off from the channel of the river unto the Beat off from 

- _, , , ,, , , , the chanuel.— 

Stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one shall perform 
1 ^ , •, 1 r -r 1 ^^ unusual 

by one, O ye children of Israel. thing. 



THE DRY BONES. 
(Genealogies.) 

EZEKIEL/ S7'- I"28. 

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in 
the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the 
valley which was full of bones. 



STORY IN DETAIL. I05 

And caused me to pass by them round about: and behold, 
there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were 
very dry. 

And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? 
And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. 



Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these S^fl^^j j^;,~ 
bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear 
the word of the Lord. 



Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will 
cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 



And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh 
upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, 
and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 



So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, 
there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came 
together, bone to his bone. 



And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up 
upon them, and the skin covered them above: ^o^^eath in 

them.— Traced 

but there was no breath in them. J^^t not yet 

located. 



I06 ARISie ! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

Wind — Ai t 1 ^^^^ said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, 
consciousness, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus 
saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds. Four winds.— 

Omnipotent 

O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they ^irid. 
may live. 

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came 
into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an 
exceeding great army. 

Then he said unto me. Son of man, these bones are the 

Whole house whole house of Israel: behold, they Our hope is 

of Israel.— All ' "^ lost.— Failure 

children of say. Our bones are dried, and our ot five previous 

Israel, though attempts to 

not yet aw ak- hope is lost: we are cut off for our 'ecover. 
ened to Truth. 

parts. 

Therefore prophesy and say unto them. Thus saith the 
Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and 
cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into 
the land of Israel. 

And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened 
your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your 
graves. 

And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall 
place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the 
Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord. 



STORY IN DETAIL. IO7. 

The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 

Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write 

upon it. For Judah, and for the children of Israel Judah.-New 

^ " name given to 

Stick of Eph- his companions: then take another Harlem De- 
raim.— Chris- pcendants, as 

tian Scientists, stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, they awaken 
renamed by *- > ^ r- » ^.^ Truth. 

the Messiah, the Stick of Ephraim, and for all the 
house of Israel his companions: 

And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall 
become one in thine hand. 

And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, 
saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? 

Say unto them. Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will 
take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and 
the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, 
even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and 
they shall be one in mine hand. 

And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand 
before their eyes. 

And say unto them. Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I will 
take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither 
they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring 
them into their own land: 



io8 arise:! take thy journey. 

And I will make them one nation in the land upon the 
mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: 
and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be 
divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 

Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their 
idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their 
transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling- 
places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so 
shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 

And David my servant shall be king over them; and they 
all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk ^ ntt}e cwid 
in my judgments, and observe my statutes, andj^p™- (Isaiah 
do them. 

And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto 
Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they 
shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their 
children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be 
their prince for ever. 

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it 
shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place 
them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the 
midst of them for evermore. 

My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their 
God, and they shall be my people. 




A BIRDSEYE VIEW OF MANHATTAN ISLAND. 
By Permission of August R. Ohman, Owner of Copyright. 



STORY IN DETAIL. IO9 

And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify 
Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for 
evermore. 



r 

W There 



THE HARLEM LINE. 



ZECHARIAH, I I 16. 



Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to Jerusalem 
with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of 
hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. 

ISAIAH^ 34: 17. 

And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath 
divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, 
from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. 



THE LOST TRIBE. 



GENESIS, 49 : 2y. 



Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning Benjamin .— 
he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall Descendants. 



divide the spoil. 



no arise! take thy journey. 

ERROR UNCOVERED. 

JEREMIAH, 32 : 44. 

Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, 
and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, 
and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities ,,. . „ 

MissmgHar- 

of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and lem records. 
in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for 
I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord. 

THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT. 

REVELATION, 18: lO. 

One hour.— 
Between ten 

. . . Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that and eleven 

° "^ o clock. Sep- 

mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment tember 25,1905, 

^ -^ -f J J o when the Har- 

COme. lem legal 

matters were 
turned over to 
the attorneys. 

FALL OF JERUSALEM. 

ZECHARIAH, 14:2. 

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; 
and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the 
women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into cap- 
tivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from 
the city. 



STORY IX DETAIL. Ill 

EZEKIEL, 21 : 27. 

I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no 
more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. 

JEREMIAH, 51 : 31. 

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to 
meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is 
taken at one end. 



A PROPHETIC PARABLE. 

EZEKIEL, 17: 1-24. 

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. 

Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable tmto 
the house of Israel; 

And say. Thus saith the Lord God ; A great eagle with great 
Highest wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had 

branch of the o 7 o o 7 

cedar.— First divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the 

Church of ' 

Christ, Scien- highest branch of the cedar: 

tist, New York ** 
City. 

He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it 
into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. 



112 arise! take: thy journe^y. 

He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in sb 
fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a 
willpw tree. 



And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature. 
Branches.— whose branches turned toward him, and the roots 

Branch 

churches. thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and 
brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. 



There was also another great eagle with great wings and 
many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots to- 
ward him, and shot forth her branches toward Furrows of her 

plantation. — 

him, that he might water it by the furrows of her Class instruc- 
plantation. 



It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might 
bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it 
might be a goodly vine. 

Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall 
he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, 
that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, 
even without great power or many people to pluck it up by 
the roots thereof. 

Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not 
utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither 
in the furrows where it grew. 



STORY IN DETAIL. II3 

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 

Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these 
things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come 
to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes 
thereof, and led them with him to Babylon; 



And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant 
Mighty of the with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath 

land.— Harlem ' 

Descendants, also taken the mighty of the land: 

That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself 
up, but that by keeping of his convenant it might stand. 



But he rebelled against him in sending his am- 
Embassadors 
intoEgppt.— bassadors into Egypt, that they might give him 

Notification to .^00 

Descendants, horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall 
he escape that doeth such things;? or shall he break the cove- 
nant, and be delivered? 



As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the 
king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, 
and whose covenant he brake, even with him Tn the midst of 
Babylon he shall die. 

Neither shall Pharoah with his mighty army and great com- 
pany make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and! 
building forts, to cut off many persons: 



114 arise! take thy journey. 

Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, 
when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these 
things, he shall not escape. 



Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine, 
oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath 
broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head. 

And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken 
in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead 
with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against 
me. 

And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the 
sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all 
winds: and ye shedl know that I the Lord have spoken it. 

Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest 
branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from 
the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon 
an high mountain and eminent: 

In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and 
it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly 
cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the 
shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. 



STORY IN DETAIL. II5 

And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord 
have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, 
have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to 
flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it. 

THE PSALMIST'S VISION. 

PSALM 80: 8-19. 
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou ^ii^e out of 

e> &J c Egypt.— First 

hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. ^'^".^^^ of. 

' ^ Christ, Scien- 

tist, New York 
City. 

Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take 
deep root, and it filled the land. 

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the 
boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. 

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches 
unto the river. 

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all 
they which pass by the way do pluck her? 

The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast 
of the field doth devour it. 

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from 
heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 



ii6 arise! take thy journey. 

And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and 
the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. 

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the re- 
buke of thy countenance. 

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the 
son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 

So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will 
call upon thy name. 

Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to 
shine; and we shall be saved. 

A PARABLE OF JESUS. 

MATTHEW, 21 : 33-42. 

Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, 
which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round ^2,"^^^^^^^^' 
about, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a ^^^ of Israel. 

, . , , ., 1 . Tower.— First 

tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into Church of 

Christ, Scien- 
a far country: tist. New York 

City. (I. Her- 
mas, Vision 
iii: 24.) 

And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his serv- 
ants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits, 
of it. 



STORY IN DETAIL. II7 

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and 
killed another, and stoned another. 

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they 
did unto them likewise. 

But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will 
reverence my son. 

But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among 
themselves. This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let 
us seize on his inheritance. 

And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, 
and slew him. 

When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what 
will he do unto these husbandmen? 

They say unto him. He will miserably destroy those wicked 
men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, 
which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. 

Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, 
The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become 
the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is 
marvellous in our eyes! 



ii8 arise! take thy journey. 

THE FIRST ATTORNEYS. 

JEREMIAH, 33 : 24-26. 

Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, 
The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he Two families 

which the Lord 

hath even cast them off? thus they have despised ^ath chosen.— 

"" ^ Two chosen 

my people, that they should be no more a nation 9^escompris- 

•^ ^ *^ "^ mg the law 

before them. firm, repre- 

senting Des- 
cendants. 

Thus saith the Lord; If my covenant be not with day and 
night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven 
and earth; 

Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my 
servant . . . 

THE SEVEN CHURCHES IN ASIA. 

REVELATION, 2 : I-/. 

Church of Unto the angel of the church ofThe^^even^ 

^SenSirone Ephesus write; These things saith heAs^|^-The^.^ 
of Israel. ^j^^^ holdeth the seven stars in hisuaism 



the rising 

e midsl 
of seven golden candlesticks; 



right hand, who walketh in the midst^onsciousness 

° ' of Truth. 



I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and 
how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast 



STORY IN DETAIL. II 9 

tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast 
found them liars: 



And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake 
hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 



THY FIRST LOVE. 



Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, be- Thy first love. 

-The same indi- 

cause thou hast left thy first love. viduaiity given 

birth to nine- 
teen centuries 
ago. 



Do the first Remember therefore from whence thou art 

know1e7ge%he^^ll^^' ^"^ repent, and do the first works; or else 

dM M^ry'Sne'I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove 

?ga ''Iam' ""^ thy candlestick out of his place, except thou re- 
Mary said. My ^ 
soul doth mag-H^***" 
nify the Lord. 
-Luke, 1:46.) 



But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of Nicoiaitanes. 
the Nicoiaitanes, which I also hate. turbing the 

harmony of 
the church. 



He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 
the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of 
the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God* 



I20 arise! take thy journey. 

REVELATION, 2:8-11. 

And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna church in 
write; These things saith the first and the last, ^"JJ^iidy^^^ 
which was dead, and is alive; 

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou 
art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they 
are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Jews.— (Ju- 

dah) Chris- 
Satan, tian Scientists. 

PROPHESIED ARREST AND TRIAL. 
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold. 

Cast into the devil shall cast some of you into That ye may 

prison.— De- . , , . , , be tried.— That 

cember, 1906. prison, that ye may be tried; and yethepubhc 

, ,, , ., , . , , , r ' 1 r t trial may take 

shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful place. 

unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. 

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 
the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the 
second death. 



REVELATION, 2: 1 2- 1 7. 



Church in 



And to the angel of the church in Pergamos Pergamos. - 

** ° The Head of 

write; These things saith he which hath the sharp F[rst church of 

' ° , *^ Christ, Scien- 

sword with two edges; gg^' New York 



STORY IN DETAII.. 121 

I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where 
Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not 
denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my 
faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan 
dwelleth. 

Doctrine of 
_ _ , r , • . « 1 Balaam.— 

But I have a few things against thee, because False theory 

, , , ,,,,,. r ^^^^ D^^'l ^^id 

thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of woman are not 

^ , , , ■r> •• 1 -,' distinct male 

Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbhng and female 
block before the children of Israel, to eat things and daughters 

._ , ., , , . - . . of God; but are 

sacnficed unto idols, and to commit fornication, "male and fe- 
male''' within 
themselves. 

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nico- 
laitanes, which thing I hate. 

Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight 
against them with the sword of my mouth. 

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 
the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of 
the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in 
the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving 
he that receiveth it. 

REVELATION, 2: 18-29. 

And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira 

Church in 

write; These things saith the Son of God, who Thyatira. -One 

of the Two 

hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet Witnesses. 
are like fine brass; 



122 arise! take thy journey. 



I know thy works and charity, and service, and faith, and 
thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the 
first. 

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because 
thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a 
prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit 
fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. 

And I gave her space to repent of her fomification; and she 
repented not. 

Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit 
adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent 
of their deeds. 

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches 
shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: 
and I will give unto every one of you according to your 
works. 

But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many 
as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the 
depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none 
other burden. 

But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 1 23 

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the 
end, to him will I give power over the nations: 

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of 
a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of 
my Father. 

And I will give him the morning star. 

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 
the churches. 

REVELATION, 3 : 1-6. 



And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These 
things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, Thou hast a 

name that thou 
and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou h^est. and art 

^ dead.— Dead 

hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. matter fhou 

Uvest in IS a 
lie-man. This 
name thou hast 

Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that 
are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect be- 
fore God. 



Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, 
and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, 
I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what 
hour I will come upon thee. 



124 arise! take thy journey. 

Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not de- 
filed their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: 
for they are worthy. 

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white 
raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of 
life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before 
his angels. 

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 
the churches. 



REVELATION, 3 : 7- 1 3. 



And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia Qjiur^h in 

Philadelphia 



write; These things saith he that is holy, he that (brothlSy 
is true, he that hath the key of David, he that ^^J^ne^Joi 
openeth, and no 
no man openeth; 



younger of the 
openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and '^'^'^ Brothers. 



AN OPEN DOOR. 



I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open 
door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a An open door. 

' —Right of own- 

little Strength, and hast kept my word, and ^^^st ership of ^^ 

not denied my name. beingunques- 

•' tionable. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 1 25 

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which 
say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, jews rjudah). 
I will make them to come and worship before thy scientfsts.'^ 
feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 



Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will 
keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come 
upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 

Behold, I come quickly : hold that fast which -thou hast,, 
that no man take thy crown. 

Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of 
my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon 
him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my*^ 
God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out oi' 
heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new: 
name. 

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 
the churches. 

REVELATION, 3 : 1 4-22. 

Amen,... the 
beginning of 
the creation of And unto the angel of the church church of the 

God.— John (his ° l.anfMof^an^ — 

Epistle com- of the Laodiceans write: These John 

mencmg with 

"In the begin- things saith the Amen, the faithful and true 

ning, and ' 

ending with witness, the beginning of the creation of God: 

Amen ). » =» o > 



126 arise! take thy journey. 

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I 
would thou wert cold or hot. 

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold or hot, 
I will spue thee out of my mouth. 

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, 
and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art 
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou 
mayest be rich; and white rainment, that thou mayest be 
clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; 
and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous there- 
fore, and repent. 

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my 
voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup 
with him, and he with me. 

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my 
throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my 
Father in his throne. 

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 
the churches. 



STORY IN DETAIL. 1 27 

WEDDING OF THE LAMB. 

E2EKIEL, 24: 16, 18. 

Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of 
thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn not! 
weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 

So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my 
wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded. 

11. ESDRAS, 9 : 38-47. 



And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back 
with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a i saw a woman. 

,,,,,, , , . , —The Holy 

woma|i, and, behold, she mourned and wept with One of Israel. 
a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes 
were rent, and she had ashes upon her head. 



Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned mo 
unto her, 

And said unto her, Wherefore weepest thou? why art thou 
so grieved in thy mind? 

And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail 
myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my 
mind, and brought very low. 



128 arise! take thy journey. 



And I said unto her, What aileth thee? tell me. 

She said unto me, I thy servant have been barren, and had 
no child, though I had an husband thirty years. 

And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, 
and every hour, but make my prayer to the Highest. 

After thirty years God heard me thine handmaid, looked 
upon my misery, considered my trouble, and gave me a son: 
and I was very glad of him, so was my husband also, and all 
my neighbors: and we gave great honor unto the Almighty. 

And I nourished him with great travail. 

So when he grew up, and came to the time that i made a feast. 
he should have a wife, I made a feast. supper of the 

Lamb. 

II. ESDRAS, 10 : I, 40-48. 

And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into 
his wedding chamber, he fell down, and died. 

This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou 
lately sawest: 

Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to 
comfort her: 



STORY IN DETAIL. 1 29 

But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but 
there appeared unto thee a city builded. 

And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is 
the solution: 

This woman, whom thou sawest, is Sion: and whereas she 
said unto thee, even she whom thou seest as a city builded. 

Whereas, I say, she said unto thee, that she hath been^ 
thirty years barren: those are the thirty years wherein there 
was no offering made in her. 

But after thirty years Solomon builded the city, and offered 
offerings : and then bare the barren a son. 

And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with 
labour: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem. 

But whereas she said unto thee, That my son 3jaj.j.iage 
coming into his marriage chamber happened to ^^^^^^of '^l 
have a fall, and died: this was the destruction that J^^"? pile? 
came to Jerusalem. t?fe^tJSL. 

REVELATION, I9: 7. 

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the 
marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made her- 
self ready. 



130 arise! takf- thy journey. 



CHAPTER IV, 



SECOND COMING. 



REINCARNATION PROVED. 



REVEI.AT10N, 2 : 4. 

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou 
hast left thy first love. 

TO COME WITH CLOUDS. 

REVEI.ATION, 1:7. 

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye^ ,, .^^ 

•^ "^ Cometh with 

shall see him, and they also which pierced him: clouds.— 

' '' ^ Clouds of ma- 

and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of te^ai sense. 

him. Even so, Amen. 



SECOND COMING. I3I 

THE ONE PIERCED. 

ZECHARIAH, 12: 10. 

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the in- 
habitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplica- 
tions: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, 
and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only 
son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitter- 
ness for his firstborn. 

TO COME QUICKLY. 

REVELATION^ 22 I 20. 

He which testifieth these things saith. Surely I come quick- 
ly. Amen. Even so, come. Lord Jesus. 

PROPHECY OF THE "TWO MEN." 
ACTS, I : II. 

Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing 
up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you 
into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him 
go into heaven. 



132 arise! take thy journey. 

UNFOLDING OF THE LAW 

II. ESDRAS, 7 : 28. 

For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with 
him . . . 

THE SEVEN SEALS. 

ZECHARIAH^ 3 : 3. 

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood 
before the angel. 

MESSIAH CUT OFF. 

DANIEL, 9 : 26. 

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut 
off, but not for himself . . . 

IN OUR MIDST. 

ZEPHANIAH, 3 : 15. 

The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out 
thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst 
of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. 



SECOND COMING. 1 33 

SIMEON'S BLESSING. 

LUKE, 2 : 34. 



And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, 
Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many 
in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; 

(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that 
the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. 



REINCARNATION EXPLAINED. 

MARK, 9 : 2-4. 

And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, 
and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart 
by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. 



And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; 
so as no fuller on earth can white them. 



And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they 
were talking with Jesus. 



134 arise:! take: thy journe:y. 

CAUTION OF SECRECY. 

]\[atthe:\\% 17 • 9- 

And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged 
them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the i^i^en again.— 

° The fourth 

Son of man be risen again from the dead. time. ;_ 

A PROPHET RAISED UP. 

de:ute:ronomy^ 18:15. 

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from 
the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye 
shall hearken. 

REAPPEARING FORETOLD. 
ACTS, 3 : 22. 

For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the 
Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto 
me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say 
unto you. 



SECOND COMING. 135 

WORDS OF STEPHEN. « 

ACTS, 7 : 37, 38. 

This is that Mo§es, which said unto the children of Israel, 
A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your 
brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. 

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the 
angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and- with our 
fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us. 

APPEARING OF THE APOSTLES. 



MATTHEW, 19: 28. 

And Jesus said unto them. Verily I say unto you. That ye 
which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of 
man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also Twelve tribes 

of Israel.— All 

shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve J^^tions of the 

» J o o world, begm- 

tribes of Israel. uing with the 

Holy City as 
a nucleus. 



ONE AFTER ANOTHER. 



II. ESDRAS, 12: 13, 14. 



Behold, the days will come, that there shall rise up a king- 
dom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms 
that were before it. 



136 arise! take thy journey. 

In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another. 

FAILURE TO DEMONSTRATE. 

II. ESDRAS, II : 19. 

So went it with all the residue one after another, as that 
every one reigned, and then appeared no more. 

TARRY TILL I COME. 

JOHN, 21 : 22. . 

Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, 
what is that to thee? follow thou me. 

MOTHER RECOGNIZED. 

JOHN 19: 26, 27. 

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple 
standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother. 
Woman, behold thy son! 



Then saith he to the disciple. Behold thyRe/emngto 

'^ • this age. 

mother! ... 



SECOND COMING. 137 

FACE TO FACE. 

III. JOHN, 14. 

But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face 
to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet 
the friends by name. 

SPIRITUAL FOOD. 

LUKK, 22 : 30. 

That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and 
sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 

THE TIME IS FULFILLED. 

JOB, 19:25. 

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall' 
stand at the latter day Upon the earth. 

MAN AMONG MEN. 

I JOHN, 3:2. 

. . . when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we 
shall see him as he is. 



ARISE ! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 
HIS KINGDOM COME. 

MATTHEW, l6: 28. 



Referring to Verily I say unto you, There be some standing 
demonstrated here, which shall not taste of death, till they see 

over death in 

Jesus; time; the Son of man coming in his kingdom. 

but will tail to ** ** 

do so at the 
Second Com- 
ing] 



JACOBS SONS. 139 



CHAPTER V. 



JACOB'S SONS. 



REUBEN. 



GENESIS, 49: 3, 4. 



Reuben... my Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and 

first-born.— ■' > ^ o » 

First and fore- the beginning of my strength, the excellency of 

of the Holy dignity, and the excellency of power: 

Thy father's 
bed.— Retiring 
from the Fath- 
er's work,— 

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; be4^^g^"(^t^i^ft,^^ 
cause thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then ^ntS-^ilew ^'" 
defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch. ^^^^^^^^ . 

^ ■^ Couch.— Spir- 

itual conscious- 
ness of rest. 



140 arise! take thy journey. 

i. chronicles, 5:1. 

Now the sons o£ Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he 
was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's 
bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son 
of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the 
birthright. 



For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of ^ ^ ^ ^^ . 

•^ ^ Judah.— Chris- 

him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was tian Scientists. 
Joseph's.) 



SIMEON AND LEVI. 

GENESIS,, 49 : 5-7. 

Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of„. 

Simeon.— Ma- 
cruelty are in their habitations. teriaMedica. 



O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their as- 
sembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger 
they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a 
wall. 






JACOB S SONS. 141 

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for 
it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in 
Israel. 

JOSHUA, 19: 9. 



Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the in- 
heritance of the children of Simeon: for the part Part of the 

^ children of 

of the children of Judah was too much for them : Judah.— The 

heahng power 

therefore the children of Simeon had their inheri- of tiie Chris- 

-tian Scientists. 

tance within the inheritance of them. 



JOSHUA, 13: 14. 

Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none in- 

Levi. — Schol- 

heritance; the sacrifices of the Lord God of astic Theology, 

— turned away 

Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he from the Ego. 
said unto them. 

JUDAH. 

GENESIS, 49 : 9. 
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, ^ , ^ „ 

'^ r .^7 .^ ' Judah. —Mor* 

thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched tai mind, 
as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 



142 arise! take thy journey. 

ZEBULUN. 

GENESIS, 49: 13. 

Border shall be 
unto Zidon. — 

Zebuiun.- Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of ^^^^^^^^^l 

LiSfrtvi^the the sea; and he shall be for an haven 2|fe CbrS 

Liberty id me ' understanding 

harbor of New^^ ^j^j ^^^ ^^^ border shall be unto reaches. Zi- 

•"^"*^* don being the 

Zidon. most northern 

city visited by 
Christ in his 
journeyings. 



ISSACHAR. 

GENESIS, 49: 14, 15. 

Issachar.— 
Mortal con- 
sciousness 
(without intel- 

Issachar is a strong ass couching down between ^^^?"^^)'T 

° ^ weighed down 

two burdens: by its own bur- 

den of error, 
and the press- 
ure of Truth. 

Land.. .pleas- And he saw that rest was good, and 

ant.— New Jer- 

usaiem. the land that it was pleasant; and 

trTbSe^Ack- bowed his shoulder to bear, and be- 

?u^eriof "^ '^' came a servant unto tribute. 



T. CHRONICLES, y.l. 
Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola 



JACOB S SONS. 143 

DAN. 

GENESIS, 49: 16-18. 
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 

Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, 
Dan —A fourth *h^* biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall 
&..:r,. fall backward. J^T^^Jtra- 

I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. }^9,n o Lord.— 

,• 'The patience 
and the faith 
of the saints." 
(Revelation, 
13:10.): 

GAD. 
GSNEiSis, 49 : 19. 
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall ^^d. -The 

^ . man child. 

overcome at the last. 

ASHER. 
GENESIS, 49 : 20. 

Asher (Bless- 
ed).— TheHoly 
One of Israel,- 
..."for, 

Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall behold, from 

henceforth all 

yield royal dainties. generations 

shall call me 
blessed." 
(Luke. 1:48.) 



144 arise! take thy journey. 

NAPHTALI. 

GENESIS^ 49: 21. 

GadandNaph- oS?offheTwo 

tall are on Naphtall IS a hind let loose : he Witnesses, 

either side of ^ 

^^^f^^-/^^'^'^- giveth goodly words. Hind let loose. 

ll^n^fT.v. ^ ^ ^ -Liberated 

the God of the Christ in the 

^w^- 1 ^.T female con- 

elation, 11: 4.) sciousness. 

JOSEPH. 



GENESIS, 49 : 22-24. 
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough Joseph (Eph 

° raim).— Chns- 

by a well; whose branches run over the wall: tian scientists 

(renamed) 

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and 
hated him: 



But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands 
were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of 



Jacob ; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of ^^^J^f^^^ ^' 

raim, — the 
man child. 



rael.— Eph- 
Israel.) raim,— the 



Benjamin, 
rle 



BENJAMIN. 

GENESIS 49: 27. 
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning 



Harlem De- he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall di- 
sc endants, — 

the Lost Tribe, vide the spoil. 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. 1 45 



CHAPTER VI. 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS, AS 
SEEN IN THE LIGHT OF DIVINE SCIENCE. 



For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus 
hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 

(Romans, 8:2.) 

To gain the true understanding of God and His 
idea, — man, — the Bible must be interpreted spiritually. 
"When the Scripture is understood, the spiritual sig- 
nification of its terms will be understood, and will con- 
tradict the interpretations that the senses give them ; 
and these terms will be found to include the inspired 
meaning." (M. W., p. 190.) 

The mortal laws, grown fixed in consciousness by 
centuries of belief, are overcome to-day in a lesser de- 
gree only than in the days of the Patriarchs. Every so- 



146 arise! take thy journey. 

called material law is false, because not of God. ''What 
are termed natural science and material laws are the 
objective states of mortal mind." (S. & H., p. 484.) 
Through the spiritual realization of divine Love alone 
can the demonstration over the laws of belief of imper- 
sonal evil — mortal mind — be accomplished. Through 
Christian Science the world is beginning to learn how 
to destroy the false, unreal laws of sin and sickness, — 
not by fighting against them as realities (''I am not come 
to destroy, but to fulfil," Mathew 5: 17), but in men- 
tally realizing the one law (the law of God) when, like 
darkness disappearing before the light, mortal beliefs 
sink into self extinction. When sin and sickness yield 
to Truth, greater demonstrations of the power of divine 
Mind as reflected through man will be evidenced, until 
finally the last enemy — death (a false illusion and law 
of mortal belief) — will be overcome. 

When Moses first discovered that the laws of mortal 
mind were subject to his control through spiritual reali- 
zation, in casting his rod ''on the ground" (Exodus, 
4:3) he realized its nothingness (ground as a form 
of belief, and was thus able to turn one belief into an- 
other, as the rod into a serpent. Startled at the ex- 
hibition of his Christ-power, he "fled from before it," 
but taking the serpent "by the tail" (Exodus, 4:4), — 
indulging in the mortal beliefs as little as possible, thus 
keeping in the spiritual thought, — the operation was re- 
versed, and the serpent turned again into a rod. In the 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. 1 47 

manifestation of leprosy, by putting his "hand into his 
bosom," — reaHzing the God-power within himself, — 
iMoses commanded mortal mind, and ''when he took it 
out" (Exodus, 4:6), he took his spiritual dominion, and 
brought out the demonstration (the phenomenon of 
"leprosy") on mortal mind's own manifestation, the 
hand ; and again realizing his God-given power within 
himself, he "plucked it out of his bosom" (Exodus, 
4: 7), — healed the diseased member by the same spiritual 
realization. These manifestations, forerunners of other 
demonstrations wrought upon Pharaoh in the form of 
plagues, by Moses, were accomplished through the obedi- 
ence of mortal mind to the word of God reflected through 
man. In like manner the cloud on Mt. Sinai, the manna 
in the wilderness with its lesson to live day by day only, 
and the pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night, — one 
and all appeared under Moses' command to mortal mind. 
And to-day, sin and sickness likewise disappear at com- 
mand, under the realization of divine Love. This disap- 
pearance of disease through the reflection of Truth, in 
the least degree, proves the Principle revealed in the so- 
called miracles of the ancients. It is indeed but a ques- 
tion of time when the capacity to reflect divine Love will 
develop, through self-purification, to an extent sufficient 
to perform the "greater works" prophesied by Jesus. 
(John, 14: 12.) 

In the days of so-called miracles, some one man at 
least has always been cognizant of the Christ-Principle, — 



148 arise! take thy journey. 

"kept secret from the foundation of the world" (Matthew, 
13: 35), — as fully revealed in Christian Science to-day. 

Moses demonstrated over the law of friction, among 
other laws of mortal mind, when the ''raiment waxed not 
old" in the forty years wandering of the Children of 
Israel. (Deuteronomy, 8:4.) Elisha, in bringing the 
ax to the surface of the water (II. Kings, 6: 5, 6), over- 
came the law of gravitation. 

When Jesus walked on the waves, he demonstra- 
ted over this same law (Matthew, 14:25-27) through 
the understanding that all force of attraction is in divine 
Mind alone, not in matter ; and when ''immediately the 
ship was at the land whither they went" (John, 6:21), 
the law of resistance of the mortal belief of water was 
annulled by the divinely reflected power of Jesus. His 
command to the fig tree that no fruit should grow there- 
on, and presently it "withered away" (Matthew, 21 : 19), 
was a rebuke from God, through the Christ idea, to the 
mortal law of capillary attraction. Jesus said : . . . "If 
ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say 
unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and 
it shall remove ; and nothing shall be impossible unto 
you." (Matthew, 17:20.) 

Were the spiritual realization of to-day sufficient to 
annul the law of gravitation, — together with other 
laws of mortal mind, — holding the seeming ponder- 
ous mass in its place, the matter formation of earth 
and rocks (admitted by scientists to be but a form 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. 1 49 

of illusive consciousness) would move, as described, in 
direct obedience to the word of God. 

This promised power is the re-discovered spiritual 
realization of divine Love, and is beginning to be univer- 
sally reflected through His highest ideas, — the sons and 
daughters of God, — "heirs of God and joint heirs with 
Christ." (Romans, 8: 17.) 

Elisha fed his hundred on twenty loaves of barley, 
and "they did eat and left thereof." (11. Kings, 4:44.) 

Jesus fed the five thousand on five barley loaves 
and two small fishes, with twelve baskets of fragments. 
(John, 6: 13.) 

Peter, the fisherman, healed the cripple. (Acts, 

3:8.) 

Jesus said to the impotent man, "Rise, take up 
thy bed and walk." (John, 5:8.) 

Peter, the fisherman, raised up Dorcas-Tabitha from 
the belief of death. (Acts, 9:40.) 

Jesus cried with a loud voice : "Lazarus, come 
forth." (John, 11:43.) 

All these so-called miracles were effected by the re- 
flection of divine Mind through man. 

The power to control the elements is a degree of 
spiritual realization. Noah produced the flood when 
"the Lord shut him in" (Genesis, 7:16); that is to 
say, when the material sense was shut out and Noah 
abode in the God-consciousness ; and in this way Elijah, 



150 arisfJ takk thy journey. 

on Mount Carmel, likewise produced the rain. (I. Kings, 
18:44,45.) 

The cause of the earthquakes, of such frequent oc- 
currence during the past years as to challenge the atten- 
tion of scientists throughout the world, — prophesied to 
occur ''in divers places" (Matthew, 24:7), — is ap- 
parent to-day. The spiritual thought going out into 
consciousness, reflected through thousands of God's 
ideas, disrupts the so-called natural, or material, laws 
of cohesion and adhesion holding the earth (a mental 
product of mortal mind) together, and, these laws 
yielding to the influence of Truth, the earth quakes along 
the lines of least resistance. 

The sweating of "drops of blood" (Luke, 22:44) 
in the garden of Gethsemane was the beginning of 
the subjection to Christ of these same laws of cohesion 
and adhesion afterwards accomplished, ''when he as- 
cended up on high" and "led captivity captive." (Ephe- 
sians, 4:8.) 

The sun, giving heat and light to the material world, 
is mortal mind's concept of the real sun, — the creation of 
God. In other words, God's idea, the sun, — the material 
sun being the false concept, — reflects light to the real 
universe. Were the material sun of God's creating, 
never would it have stood still for Joshua "upon Gibeon" 
(Joshua, 10: 12), nor could the shadow have been brought 
"ten degrees backward" by Isaiah the Prophet. (II. 
Kings, 20: II.) 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. I5I 

The main object of leading the children of Israel 
forty years through the wilderness (Numbers, 14:33) 
— a journey that could have been accomplished in 
a few weeks — was to impress them and the world 
at large that Moses was a spiritual leader and oracle 
of God. His sayings and teachings, as incorporated in 
the Bible, must first be universally accepted, and thus 
become fixed laws unto themselves, if the human race 
is ever to awaken from the mesmeric dream of life in 
matter. 

Moses, through the wisdom given him of God, early 
appreciated the necessity of shortening the span of human 
life, until the world would come to the understanding 
that life is Mind and not in matter, well knowing that 
frequent death, in strong contrast to the then existing 
length of days, would cause the race to ponder, think, 
and reason over man's relationship to God. 

And until the days of David, under Moses' law of 
limitation, the span of life was shortened to an hundred 
and twenty years. 



. . . yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty 
years, (Genesis, 6:3.) 



and, at the time of the promulgation of the ninetieth 
Psalm, it became further reduced to three score years and 



152 arisk: take thy journey. 

ten; — to this settled belief of the centuries humanity 
bows to-day. 

' This law of limitation is even now beginning to 
yield to the power of Truth, statistics showing a notable 
lengthening of life within recent years, while the death 
rate of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, 
furnishes a marked illustration of progress made in the 
imderstanding of Life over the belief in death, among 
the ranks of the Christian Scientists. Of the twenty- 
two thousand one hundred and thirty-nine members in 
the year 1901, the death rate was two and thirty-two one 
hundredths per one thousand, or seventeen and thirty- 
eight-one hundredths per one thousand less than the 
death rate in the City of Boston. 

And again, as a further regulator of the human race, 
Moses evolved the law ''in sorrow thou shalt bring forth 
children" (Genesis, 3:16), thus imposing a limitation 
on propagation, through the efficient operation of fear. 

If within the past two hundred years both men and 
women have suffered at the stake, or scaffold, for their 
religious beliefs, is it a cause for wonder that Moses 
failed to disclose to the dense understanding of the Chil- 
dren of Israel the fact that man is a mental, not a physical, 
being, or covered his face with a veil (Exodus, 34:33) 
to hide the change of countenance — the Christ on the 
flesh — wrought by his mental communion on Mount 
Sinai? Jesus declared sixteen hundred years later, "1 
have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. 1 53 

bear them now" (John, i6: 12), and alluded, in a few 
instances only, to the fact that we are mental beings, such 
as, ''A spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have" 
(Luke, 24:39), and again, '*Ye are of your father the 
devil" (John, 8:44.) 

The declaration ''I have meat to eat that ye know 
not of" (John, 4: 32), carried with it the hidden mean- 
ing that the Master was sustained by the substance of 
thought. Even to-day the human mind resists the Truth 
embodied in the statement "All is Mind and Mind's idea." 
(S. &H.,p.492.) 



There is no death. 



Man (not matter) was made a spiritual being after 
God's image and likeness. 



So God created man in his own image, in the image 
of God created he him; male and female created he 
them; (Genesis, 1:27.) 



and if man — immortal — was created after God's image, 
man is the same immortal being, "yesterday, and to-day, 
and forever." An immortal man can never die. 



154 ARISE I TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

"Mortals waken from the dream of death, with 
bodies unseen by those who think they bury the body." 
(S: & H., p. 429.) 

Question. — Where do they waken? 

Answer. — On other planets. 



And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under 
the altar the souls of them that were slain for the 
word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 

And they cried with a loud voice, saying. How long, 
O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge 
our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 

(Revelation, 6: 9, 10.) 



The opening of the fifth seal of error (the fifth stage 
of spiritual growth in the individual consciousness of 
the man child) follows the present period, — the beginning 
of the opening of the fourth seal. (Revelation, 6:7.) 
Concurrent with this event, when universal consciousness 
is leavened with Truth, the thoughts of those having 
passed on and living on other planets will be Scientifically 
discerned from this earth. 

The word "under" is typical of understanding; 
"altar," typical of worship. Therefore, "under the 
altar" would indicate : Understanding what is uni- 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. 1 55 

versally worshipped in belief, namely, that man dies : 
but knowing the reverse, that life is in Mind, and 
man is immortal, — through this reflection of Truth, John 
''saw," or Scientifically discerned, the thoughts (souls) 
of those "slain for the word of God ;" namely, foresaw a 
mental communication with the martyrs (the most spirit- 
ually-minded Christians) who have gone before. 

To ''judge" is to bring understanding; to "avenge," 
to vindicate or prove true; "blood" is typical of Life. 
Hence, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou 
not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on 
the earth?" is a cry from those looking backward and 
saying: How long will it be, O Lord, before under- 
standing will be brought to those dwelling on the earth 
to vindicate and prove it true to them that our Life was 
never taken? 

The answer is found in the following verse: 



And white robes were given unto every one of 
them ; and it was said unto them, that they should 
rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants 
also and their brethren, that should be killed as they 
were, should be fulfilled, (Revelation, 6:11.) 



"that they should rest yet for a little season," — 
in the vear nineteen hundred and ten, or until such time 



156 arise! take thy journey. 

as a second illustration, or proof, that life is in Mind and 
not in matter come to a doubting world in the over- 
coming of the 'last enemy" by the Two Witnesses. 

''Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord" 
(Revelation, 14: 13), or pass on with the light of Truth, 
having overcome mortal beliefs, for ''he that overcometh 
shall not be hurt of the second death." (Revelation, 
2: II.) 

By telling the secret to others, the process of waken- 
ing from the dream of life in matter will extend to other 
planets. The Truth will be understood by those most 
spiritual, who in turn will encourage others in their 
struggle for freedom. 



Thy eaith hath made thee whole. (Matthew, 9 : 22.) 

The word faith is defined as the "assent of the mind, 
or understanding, to the truth of what God has- re- 
vealed." This definition finds illustration in the cir- 
stances surrounding the healing of the woman by Jesus, 
as told by Matthew. It was not the material blind faith 
that healed, but the turning of the human mind to Christ, 
through whom God revealed Himself in the force of 
divine Love. "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is 
dead, being alone" (James, 2: 17) ; but faith, as spiritual 
understanding, when awakened, brings into quickened 



SPIRITUAI^ LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. 1 57 

activity the force of Spirit, and is alive with results. 
This quickening influence of divine Love, reflected 
through the Master, entering the woman's conscious- 
ness, awakened her Christ, — or spiritual understanding 
(referred to by Jesus in using the word faith), — and, 
dispelling the mortal beliefs, made her whole. In other 
words, Jesus declared in substance: 

Thy awakened Christ, — faith, — quickened into ac- 
tivity by the reflection of Truth, Life and Love, "a law 
of annihilation to everything unlike themselves'' (S. & 
H., p. 243), hath made thee whole. 

Again, metaphysical healing finds illustration in the 
words of Paul, the apostle : 



The same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly be- 
holding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be 
healed, 

Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. 
And he leaped and walked. (Acts, 14:9, 10.) 



In ''steadfastly beholding him," Paul silently realized 
to himself the cripple's spiritual reality, and, in ''perceiv- 
ing he had faith," knew that through this realization, the 
force of divine Love surging through his consciousness 
was awakening the cripple's spiritual understanding of 
God, — his Christ, divinity, or faith, — and this quickened 
activity accomplished the healing described. 



158 arise! take thy journey. 

Day of judgment. 

The ''Day of Judgment," in the generally accepted 
meaning of the words, conveys the idea of an arraign- 
ment before a Court, with the attendant passing of judg- 
ment, by a Supreme Judge, upon the misdeeds of mortals 
committed upon the earth. The Judgment, or ''mental 
operation by which facts are weighed," lies, however, in 
man himself, not in any Judge. 



For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed 
all judgment unto the Son, — (John, 5:22.) 



hath committed the "mental operation by which facts are 
weighed" unto the Christ-understanding (son), — avail- 
able to all alike upon awakening to Truth. 



God's creation spiritual, not material. 



. . . Behold, I have given you every herb bearing 
seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and 
every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding 
seed; to you it shall be for meat. • (Genesis, 1:29.) 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. 1 59 

Of all creation, man is the highest idea of God, — 
and animals, herbs, and trees, also ideas of God, are like- 
wise perfect and eternal. Divine Love — sustaining- 
spiritual substance, ''meat" — reflects through man, the 
idea of God, and through animals, herbs and trees, — His 
ideas as well. 

And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this 
great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 

(Exodus, 3:3.) 

Moses ''turned aside," — turned away from material 
thought, — and saw, where the false material bush seemed 
to be, the spiritual bush, scintillating with the "con- 
suming fire" of divine Love. 

This reflection of Spirit through Moses, far from 
consuming the false material bush, quickened it with 
"heaHng in its wings," and had the bush been diseased, 
or withered, a restoration to health and harmony would 
have occurred, even as the Spirit quickens the mortal 
body. (Romans, 8: ii.) When God called to Moses 
"out of the midst of the bush" (Exodus, 3:4), 
"Love" became "reflected in love." (S. & H., p. 17.) 
Through this understanding of Love, even as "one touch 
of nature makes the whole world kin," peace and rest 
of mind and body ever comes to man, while roaming 
in the forests alone with nature, or listening to the 
language of the flowers. 



i6o arisk! take thy journey. 

And when thought is universally changed, and God's 
creation recognized as spiritual, and not material, then 
only will nature be transformed, and. 



Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and 
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: 
and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an ever- 
lasting sign that shall not be cut off. (Isaiah, 55:13.) 



That divine Love is reflected through the animal 
kingdom, as well as through herbs and trees, finds illus- 
tration in the feeding of Elijah by the ravens (I. 
Kings, 17:6), and the reflection of the word of God to 
Balaam, through a seemingly dumb animal. (Numbers, 
22:28.) 



Battle of the Amalekites. (Exodus 17:8-12.) 



Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in 
Rephidim. 

And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, 
and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will 
stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in 
mine hand. 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. l6l 

So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and 
fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur 
went up to the top of the hill. 

And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, 
that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, 
Amalek prevailed. 

But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a 
stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and 
Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the 
one side, and the other on the other side; and his 
hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 



The meeting of the Israelites with the Amalekites, 
won only by most faithful work on the part of the 
spiritual leader of that age, describes the type of the 
mental battle between Truth and error to-day. 

Moses is pictured as sustained by the Christ-Prin- 
ciple,^the stone, or rock, under him ; while Aaron's and 
Hur's assistance, in holding up his hands (power), was 
the impersonal mental work on their part reflecting 
strength and support to their leader. 

When the claim of weariness comes, and hesitation 
to press forward in the life race for immortality, the 
Amalekites will prevail ; but when loyal Christian Scien- 
tists hold up the hands of the spiritual Leader of the 
world to-day, sustaining her with the impersonal power 



i62 arise! take thy journey. 

of God, the battle turns in favor of Truth, and the victory 
is won in the final fall of error, — the ''going down of the 
sun.'' 



And God said. Let the earth bring forth grass. 
(Genesis, i : ii.) 

As the Earth is "a sphere, a type of eternity and im- 
mortality, which are likewise without beginning or end" 
(S. & H., p. 585), so is Grass a type of humility :— ''The 
grass beneath our feet silently exclaims, 'The meek shall 
inherit the earth.' " (S. & H., p. 516.) "Let the earth 
bring forth grass," — allow the understanding of immor- 
tality to enter the consciousness, bringing forth humility, 
the only quality through which all things are inherited ! 
Through this understanding Nature is spiritually dis- 
cerned, — . . . "the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree 
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon 
the earth." (Genesis, i:ii.) 



Suefifient unto the day is the evii. thereof. (Mat- 
thew, 6: 34.) 

Spirit uncovers, each day, error sufficient to demand 
the fullest realization of divine Love for harmonious 
demonstration. 



spiritual laws and bible sayings. 1 63 

But pray ye that your flight be not in the win- 
ter, NEITHER ON THE SABBATH DAY. (MatthcW, 
24:20.) 

Pray that ye neither flee away from your problem, — 
from coldness of heart toward those who are leading you, 
— nor neglect the call of duty, being lulled into a state 
of ease and rest in error, through mesmerism. 



I BEHELD SATAN AS LIGHTNING FALL FROM HEAVEN. 

(Luke, 10: 18.) 

I saw how the law of reversal immediately struck 
back in revenge on sin's destroyers, and protected you. 



Take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. (Mat- 
thew, 9:6.) 

Handle metaphysically what you have relied on 
(material beliefs), and dwell in the secret place of the 
most High. 



164 arise! take thy journey. 

That the blood of ale the prophets, which was 
shed from the foundation oe the world, may 

BE REQUIRED OE THIS GENERATION. (Luke, II : 50.) 

• 

The belief that the Life (blood) of the prophets, or of 
anyone, was ever taken, will be reqiiired of mortal mind, 
to be supplanted by the understanding that life is in God, 
and that no one has ever died. 



Automobiles oe prophecy. 

The prophets of old, discerning not only what had 
ever been in divine Mind, but the mental picture of seem- 
ing existence in the mortal dream as well, wrote as in 
a vision ; and startling proof of prophetic accuracy is to 
be found in the fourth verse of the second chapter of 
Nahum : 



The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall 
justle one against the other in the broad ways: they 
shall seem like torches, they shall run like the light- 
nings. 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. 1 65 

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and 
ASHES. (Job, 42: 6.) 

To "repent in dust and ashes" is to gain the spiritual 
realization of mortal man's nothingness (dust), thus 
bringing into operation the force of Spirit, the consum- 
ing fire of Love, — reducing to ashes all false thoughts 
or beliefs, bringing the "forgiveness of sin in the de- 
struction of sin." (S. & H., p. 497.) 



Only begotten son. 



For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son . . . (John, 3: 16.) 



These words have been universally interpreted as 
indicating the sacrifice of an only son. The word "son," 
however, as here used, is the Christ-idea, — "begotten," 
— derived from the Father, and brought into the world 
through Jesus. In other words, God so loved the world 
that he gave (brought to man through Jesus) the only 
son, — the Christ-idea, or only true understanding: begot- 
ten, — derived from the Father; lived, and demonstrated 
by the Master. 



1 66 arise;! take; thy journey. 

Holy Ghost. 

By means of the "Holy," or pure spiritual reali- 
zation that God is All, and matter and mortal beliefs il- 
lusions (ghost). Spirit operates through the conscious- 
ness, dispelling fear (''perfect love casteth out fear, — " 
I. John, 4: 18), and kindred beliefs, bringing comfort 
to man through the quickening of the body (Romans, 
8:11) into health and harmony. 

This Comforter of prophecy (John, 14: 16) comes 
only through Christ-understanding, and is Divine 
Science, as taught to-day. 



Search the Scriptures. 

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have 
eternal life ... (John, 5:39.) 



Search the Scriptures, for in understanding them 
ye realize ye have eternal life, — through thinking. 



I HAVE CALLED YOU ERIENDS. 

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant 
knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called 



SPIRITUAL LAWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. 1 67 

you friends; for all things that I have heard of my 
Father I have made known unto you. 

(John, 15:15.) 



Jesus saw the spiritual man where the mortal body 
seemed to be, and, through the mental reflection of divine 
intelligence, — awakening the consciousness of the disci- 
ples by making known unto them all things he had heard 
of the Father, — he lifted their thoughts to the imderstand- 
ing of their relationship to God, — that they were spiritual, 
not material, and hence passed from death (John, 5 : 24) 
(the belief of life in matter) unto life (the understanding 
of life in Mind). Having risen to this spiritual plane, 
Jesus was able to call them "friends." 



Spiritual man. 
Joshua the son of Nun . . . (Joshua, 1:1.) 

Prophecies fail. 

but whether there be prophesies, they shall fail . 

(I. Corinthians, 13:8.) 



1 68 arise! take thy journey. 

They shall fail to be true and lasting, as everything 
in the mortal consciousness is a dream. 



Cause of affliction. 



Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, 
neither doth trouble spring out of the ground. 

(Job, 5:6.) 

Affliction and trouble are not the outcome of false, 
discordant, mortal thoughts (nothingness) themselves, 
but spring forth when these thoughts are beUeved. 



Second death. 

Belief of life in matter on the next planet or sphere 
of experience. 



There is no space. 

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature 
[creation of mortal mind] .. . (Romans, 8:39.) 



spiritual laws and bible sayings. 1 69 

Even the gold of human character must be con- 
sumed BY LOVE. 

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my 
hands never so clean; 

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine 
own clothes shall abhor me. (Job. 9:30, 31.) 



Two INDIVIDUAL NATURES IN ONE. (S. & H., p. 577.) 

. . . Say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, 
and your Father; and to my God, and your God. 

(John, 20:17.) 
. . . and Mary hath chosen that good part, which 
shall not be taken away from her. (Luke, 10:42.) 



Man born unto trouble. 

Yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly up- 
ward. (Job, 5:7.) 

As Christ is lifted up, the conflict between Spirit an( 
the flesh occasions suffering. 



170 arise:! take thy journey. 

True sei.f. 
. . love thy neighbor as thyself. . . . (Mark, 12:31.) 

Love thy neighbor as thou lovest Christ. 

Day of the Lord. 

But the day of the Lord* will come as a thief in the 
night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with 
a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fer- 
vent heat, the earth also and the works that are 
therein shall be burned up. (II. Peter, 3:10.) 

"Heavens" typify states of so-called harmony under 
material laws (elements) ; "earth" (a sphere without be- 
ginning or end), the ever-continuance of these condi- 
tions; ''works therein," the results obtained, w^orking 
from a wrong premise, — the belief of life in matter. 
These will pass away, being destroyed by the consuniing 
fire of Love, — to be superseded by the laws of Spirit. 

Reign oe harmony. 

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom 
of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth 



SPIRlTUAIv I.AWS AND BIBLE SAYINGS. IJI 

shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt 
loose on earth shalt be loosed in heaven. 

(Matthew, 16:19.) 



I will give you the Truth, and, through this under- 
standing, v^hatsoever thou shalt bind or loose on earth 
shall be effected harmoniously. 



^ 



Ten years ago the poem Christ and Christmas was sent 
out into consciousness, as a messenger, by Mary Baker 
G. Eddy. (M. W., p. 308.) In 1904-5, as an answer, 
was written the following poem, — New Jerusalem. 



172 arisk! take thy journey. 



CHAPTER VII. 



NEW JERUSALEM. 



I. From smallest seed/ in bursting through the sod, 
A tree of life appears, — outcome of God, — 

The Truth revealed. 
Of Bible secrets, many yield at last ; 
Love's sunshine penetrates the darkened past, 

No more concealed. 

^ MATTHEW 13: 31. 
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, 
The kingdom o£ heaven is like to a grain of mustard 
seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field. 



NEW JERUSALEM. 1 75 

2. To God's Word, read by Israel's Holy One, — 
Through revelation was the work begun, — 

The key is found. 
This key unbolts the lock, though still is barred 
The door to prophecies that angels guard, 

Where truths abound. 



3. As ocean's depths profound the secret keep, 
Of famed Atlantis, 'whelmed beneath the deep, — - 

Hid from man's view, — 
So rests the City Israel longs to find; — 
In Scripture deeply veiled from mortal mind, — 

Jerusalem, the New. 



4. Though prophets saw God's plan for latter day, 
'Twas learned through wisdom's guidance what to say,. 

What to curtail ; 
To cloak the final scene, — forever planned,-^ 
The righteous overturning^ of the land, 

Till Good prevail. 



" EZEKIEL, 21 \2y. 
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall 
be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I 
will give it him. 



174 arise! take: thy journey. 

5. The daybreak hour has struck, when error's reign 
Must yield to Truth ; no longer seek in vain 

Whence blessings flow. 
Proud City^ of the land, — the first to feel 
The Scientific change from false to real,^ 

God wills it so. 

^ REVELATION, 18 I 2. 
. . . Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen . . . 

6. Now well nigh forty years, Love, shining through 
God's Holy One, recalls the wandering Jew* 

From far off lands. 
Dispersed no more, — the prophecy fulfilled, — 
Truth's mandate sounds, Arise, the City build,^ 

With purer hands ! 

Ti : 12. 
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and 
shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather tOr 
gether the dispersed of Judah from the four comers 
of the earth. 

^ NEHEMIAH, 2 : 20. 
Then answered I them, and said unto them, The 
God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his 
servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, 
nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. 



' 



NEW JERUSALEM. 

7. When blessing Jacob's sons, — in order named, — 
Was Judah's fall, in latter day, proclaimed ; — 

Base mortal^ mind. 
No sceptred power can stand through human laws ; 
The world must turn from false effect to Cause, 

To save mankind. 

^ GENESIS, 49: 10. 
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a 
lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; 
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 



8. Just here observe what Judah'' signifies, 
To grasp the different meanings that arise, — 

Their import glean; 
Of Judah's tribe, to Blessed One came first 
The gleam of light, — Life's ray through darkness burst,- 

By Master seen. 

'^ SCIENCE AND HEALTH, P. 589. 
Judah. — A corporeal material belief, progressing and 
and disappearing; the spiritual understanding of God 
and man appearing. 



9. As used in sacred Writ, the word implies. 
In this sense, Truth appearing; — opened eyes, 

Let there be lieht ! 



176 arise! take thy journey. 

When otherwise expressed, the term defined 
Is disappearing thought of mortal mind; — 

The passing night. 

10. Lost^ Israel reclaimed, — long since foretold, — 
Now joins with Judah,^ to become one fold. 

With one to lead. 
In council met, where plan and purpose thrill. 
All yield, and recognize God's holy will, 

In every need. 

* EZEKiEL, 34: 16. 
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again 
that which was driven away . . . 

^ HOvSEA, I : II. 
Then shall the children of Judah and the children 
of Israel be gathered together, and appoint them- 
selves one head, and they shall come up out of the 
land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel. 



II. With filthy garments^^ clothed, — in seven seals,^^- 
The one appointed grows, ^^ — as Love reveals, — 

And meets the call. 
By power of Truth compelled to rise to fame,^^ 
The thought would e'er recur. What's in a name, 

When God is All. 



NEW JERUSAI.EM. 1 77 

^^ ZECHARIAH, 3 : 3. 
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and 
stood before the angel. 



^* REVELATION, 5:1. 
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the 
throne a book written within and on the backside, 
sealed with seven seals. 



^2 ZECHARIAH, 6: 12. 

And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the 
Lord of hosts, sasdng. Behold the man whose name 
is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his 
place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord. 



^^ I. SAMUEL, 3 : 20. 
And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-Sheba knew 
that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the 
Lord. 



12. While bringing out the Work, in deep despair, 
In ''secret place" was sought through earnest prayer, 

Some word from Mind, 
To dissipate all doubt ;-^forever close 
The question, Could this be the one God chose 

To call mankind? 



178 arise! take thy journey. 

13. At midnight, Christmas eve, — in answer given,- 
God's ever-present voice was heard from heaven, — 

The Bible ask ! 
The sacred Book was opened at the page 
That showed by nanie^^ a prophet of this age, — 

Raised to the task. 

^* JUDGES, 10:1. 
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel 
Tola . . . 

14. Behold, in Scripture are the details told. 
Of visions seen in Mind, — still to unfold, 

As years roll by. 
Isaiah writes, By name^^ is Jacob called. 
Redeemed from error, surnamed,^^ and installed, — 

Sent from on High. 

^^ ISAIAH, 43: I. 
But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O 
Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: 
for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy 
name; thou art mine. 

^^ ISAIAH, 45:4. 

For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, 
I have even called thee by thy name: I have sur- 
named thee ... 



NEW JERUSALEM. 1 79 

15. A chosen few, by light of love intense/'' 
Behold the Christ-idea through mists of sense; — 

No others can. 
Before a world astounded/^ to appear, 
The last shall be the first ;^^ — no halo here, — 

An uncrowned man. 

^"^ II. ESDRAS, 13: 52. 
And he said unto me, Like as thou canst neither 
seek out nor know the things that are in the deep of 
the sea: even so can no man upon earth see my Son, 
or those that be with him, but in the day time. 

^^ II. ESDRAS, 13 : 30. 
And he shall come to the astonishment of them 
that dwell on the earth. 

^^ DEUTERONOMY, 28:13. 
And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not 
the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt 
not be beneath . . . 



16. In righteousness this servant is raised^^ up, 
To build the City, and to drink the cup. 

To the last dreg. 
Through sufferings shall the captain^^ overcome, 
And gain reward of God, — no worldly sum 

Of Gentile beg.22 



l80 ARISE ! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

20 ISAIAH, 45: 13- 
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will 
direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he 
shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, 
saith the Lord of hosts. 



-^ HEBREWS, 2 : 10. 
For it became him, for whom are all things, and 
by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto 
glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect 
through sufferings. 



^^ IIT. JOHN, 7. 

taking nothing of the Gentiles. 



17. When comes the Son of man, shall faith^^ be found? 
Not in the stranger's land,^'* where myths abound, — 

False concepts all. 
As Daniel spake, When given power to stand,^^ 
The kingdom scattered ; — not by human hand, — 

'Twas meant to fall. 

23 i^uKE, 18:8. 
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. 
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he 
find faith on the earth? 



NEW JERUSALEM. l8l 

24 PSALM 137: 4. 
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange 
land? 

^^ UAXIEL. 11:4. 

And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be 
broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds 
of heaven. . . 

18. As in the past, — blest Palestina's^^ hour, — 
So in this age, the same hand shows God's power. 

Revealed through man. 
Remoter still — e'en hid from Holy One — 
Is veiled the record of the sought-for Son, 

O'er eon's span. 

^® CHRIST AND CHRISTMAS. 

19. In ''Thou hast left thy first love," — mark 

the charge, — 
Lies hid a secret from the world at large : — 

Kept ages long. 
Reincarnation proved,^' — though sense conceals, — 
The Christ appears in clouds,^* of seven seals,^^ 

Of error's wrong. 

^' REVELATION', 2 : 4. 

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, be- 
cause thou hast left thy first love. 



i82 arise! take thy journey. 

^*^ REVEI.ATION, I : 7. 
Behold he cometh with clouds; and every eye 
shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and 
all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. 
Even so, Amen. 

^® REVELATION, 8: I. 
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there 
was silence in heaven about the space of half an 
hour. 

20. To Peter, James, and John, — this secret^^ told,- 
Blind eyes are opened ; centuries past unfold 

The source, and name. 
Not only was the Master there discerned. 
But Moses, and Elias — Christ returned — 

Incarnate came. 

^^ MATTHEW, 17:1,3. 

And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and 
John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high' 
mountain apart. 

And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and 
Elias talking with him. 

21. What time Jehovah sundered Pharoah's^^ sway, 
Stepped forth the coming prophet of to-day, — . 

"Like unto' me." ^^ 



NEW JERUSALEM. 1 83 

This ordained one, discerned, — through mists to rise, — 
Supplants all need of ointment^^ for the eyes ; — 

The wise will see. 



^^ EXODUS, 12: 31. 
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and 
said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my 
people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, 
serve the Lord, as ye have said. 



•^- DEUTERONOMY, 18: I5. 
The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet 
from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; 
unto him ye shall hearken. 



^^ REVELATION, 3:18. 
. . . and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou 
mayest see. 



22. Dominion^"* has been promised from above, 
In everlasting power of Life and Love; — 

Caught to the throne.^^ 
Before the Truth, in time, must all men bow ;^^ 
For God's idea — the Christ^^ — is here and now, 

Though yet unknown. 



184 arise! take thy journey. 

7:14. 

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and 
, a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, 
should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting do- 
minion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom 
that which shall not be destroyed. 



^^ REVELATION, 12:5. 
And she brought forth a man child, who was to 
rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was 
caught up unto God, and to his throne. 



^^ REVELATION, 2 : 26-28. 

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works 
unto the end, to him will I give power over the na- 
tions: 

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the 
vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: 
even as I received of my Father. 

And I will give him the morning star. 



^^ SCIENCE AND HEALTH, P. 565. 
. . . for Christ, God's idea, will eventually rule all na- 
tions and peoples — imperatively, absolutely, finally 
— with divine Science, 



NEW JERUSALEM. 1 85 

2^. From Corner-Head^^ will Love the nations hold, 
When aliens are as plowmen,^'^ and the old 

Disciples shown.'*^ 
The Master's words were, Ye which followed^^ me 
Shall judge the tribes of Israel, and be 

Twelve kings, well known. 



^^ ISAIAH, 11:4. 
. . . and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his 
mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay 
the wicked. 

^^ ISAIAH, 61 : 5. 
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and 
the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your 
vinedressers. 

^^ II. ESDRAS, 7 : 28. 
For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that 
be with him .... 

*^ MATTHEW, 19 : 28. 
And Jesus said unto therii, Verily I say unto you, 
That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration 
when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his 
glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging 
the twelve tribes of Israel. 



1 86 arise:! take thy journey. 

24. In due successions^ these apostles reign, 
Though each, in turn, demonstrate Life, in vain. 

And disappear.s^ 
The first abides^^ until the Master comes. 
To greet the friends by name,^^ — the faithful ones, 

Who Truth revere. 

S^ II. ESDRAS, 12: 14. 

In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after 
another. 

S^ II. ESDRAS, 11: 19. 
So went it with all the residue one after another, 
as that every one reigned, and then appeared no 
more. 

SS JOHN, 21 : 22. 

Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I 
come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. 

S^ III. JOHN, 14. 

But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall 
speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends 
salute thee. Greet the friends by name. 

25. By mortal^^ mind — to sense — (with claim to power) 
Was God's idea abjured, in darkest hour; — 

Bereft of friends.'*' 



NEW JERUSALEM. 1 8/ 

This power Ezekiel — chapter seventeen — 
Admonishes, and makes it clearly seen, 

In failure ends. 

^^ DANIEL, 11:5. 
And the king of the south shall be strong, and one 
of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and 
have dominion; his dominion shall be a great do- 
minion. 

^^ ZECHARIAH, 13:6. 
And one shall say vmto him, What are these wounds 
in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with 
which I was wounded in the house of my friends. 



26. Engirt by those of understanding blind, 
Through Love's command, "he" gives "them up,"^* 
to find 

Rest, undismayed. 
Till Balaam's doctrine^^ yields to wisdom's call. 
And universal love is shown for all, 

The birth's delayed. 

5:3. 
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that 

she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the 

remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children 

of Israel. 



i88 arise! take thy journey. 

2: 14. 

But I have a few things against thee, because thou 
has there them that hold the doctrine of Ba- 
laam . . . 

2^. Zerubbabel, and Joshua are stirred,^^ 
As Haggai explicitly averred, 

In language plain; 
And even told the month- — in June^^ — when fear 
Would seize the people, in the second year 

Of lordly reign. 

^^ HAGGAI, I : 14. 
And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel 
the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit 
of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the 
spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came 
and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their 
God, 

^^ HAGGAI, 1:15. 

In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, 
in the second year of Darius the king. 



28. A full year's round of weeks, plus sixty-two. 
The Street is found, rebuilt^^ to mortal view,— 

The Way God planned. 



NEW JERUSALEM. 1 89 

At His command, when troublous times appear, 
False concept, cut ofif'"^^ from the Church, so dear, 

Alone must stand. 

^^ DANIEL, 9 : 25. 
Know therefore and understand, that from the 
going forth of the commandment to restore and to 
build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be 
seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the 
street shall be built again, and the wall, even in 
troublous times. 

^^ DANIEL, 9: 26. 
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah 
be cut off, but not for himself . . . 



29. Through warfare^^ with the Saints, 'till Love 

prevails, 
Beliefs are self-destroyed,— as error quails,^^ 

To plague no more. 
Turn not away, O God, for David's sake,^^ 
The face of Thine anointed, nor forsake, 

Forevermore. 

^^ DANIEL, 7: 21. 
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the 
saints, and prevailed against them. 



190 ARISE ! TAKE THY JOURNEY. 

^^ REVEI.ATION, 3 : 9. 

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of 

, Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do 

lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship 

before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 

^^ PSALM 132: 10. 
For thy servant David's sake turn not away the 
face of thine anointed. 



30. A woman^''' (Beauty), and a man called Bands, 
E'en now await the hour, with cruel hands, 

Christ to betray. 
From hatred of the Truth, and love of gold. 
The Judas kiss^^ — the same as that of old — 

Salutes to-day. 

^"^ ZECHARIAH, 11:7. 

And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O 
poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; 
the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; 
and I fed the flock. 

^* ZECHARIAH, Ii:i2. 
... So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of 
silver. 



NEW JERUSALEM. I9T 

31. By Zechariah is the scene laid bare, 

Of how three shepherds^^ in one month would fare, 

With anger stirred. 
And when the work of tracing heirs proved vain, 
'Twas placed in other hands, — the names**** explain. 

In Holy Word. 



^^ ZECHARIAH, 1 1 : 8. 
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and 
my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred 
me. 



^^ ZECHARIAH, 11:13. 
And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: 
a goodly price that I was priced at of them. And I 
took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them toi 
the potter in the house of the Lord. 



32. To gratify revenge, in prison cell,®^ 
Ten days of tribulation — sense of hell — 

Will hate atone; 
The Word, declared, — all fear at last dispelled, — 
Will shield against the thoughts in ignorance held. 

Till truth be known. 



192 arise! take thy journey. 

^^ REVELATION, 2 : lO. 
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: 
Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, 
that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation 
ten days . . . 



33. Travail^^ in pain, O Zion's daughter lone ! 
Is there no king^^ in Mind? Can Love disown 

Love's child64 of old? 
Unwittingly the mental birth goes on ; 
The promised man child*^^ is brought forth anon, — 

The story told. 

^2 MIC AH, 4: 10. 
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter 
of Zion, like a woman in travail . . . 



^^ MICAH, 4:9. 

Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king 
in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have 
taken thee as a woman in travail. 



^^ SCIENCE AND HEALTH, P. 476. 
In divine Science, God and the real man are in- 
separable, as Principle and its idea. 



i 



NEW JERUSALEM. I93 

^'^ I. JOHN, 3 : 2. 
. . . when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for 
we shall see him as he is. 



34. Like lightning^^ flashing from the eastern sky, 
And shining to the West, — as tidings fly, — 

The nations hear. 
Meanwhile, alone, and suffering^'' many things, — 
Rejection overcome, — God blessing brings. 

With Leader near. 



**** MATTHEW, 24 : 2y. 
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and 
shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming 
of the Son of man be. 

^' LUKE, 17: 25. 
But first must he suffer many things, and be re- 
jected of this generation. 



35. Midst clouds of heaven, led to Holy One,^*- 
Dominion^^ given, harmony begun, — 

The plans unfold. 
A generation passed in wilderness, 
Reveals the Land, — God's chosen own to bless ; — 

Forever hold. 



194 arisk! take: thy journey. 

^^ danie:i., 7: 13. 
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the 
Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and 
came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him 
near before him. 



**" REVELATION, 5:7. 
And he came and took the book out of the right 
hand of him that sat upon the throne. 



36. From Jesse's stem,''^ an iron rod comes forth, — 
In this description called king of the North,''^ 

Acknowledged right! 
The BRANCH''^ that grows, reveals Jerusalem, — 
In type and symbol reading Niew-Herr-Lem, 

Or, New-Lord-Light. 



'^^ ISAIAH, II : I. 
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem 
of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. 



^^ DANIEL, 11:6. 
And in the end of years they shall join themselves 
together; for the king's daughter of the south shall 
come to the king of the north to make an agree- 
ment ... 



NEW JERUSALEM. 1 95 



^2 JEREMIAH, 23 : 5. 



Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will 
raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King 
shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment 
emd justice in the earth. 



2^^. The poem, Christ and Christmas, — years gone by, 
Proceeded, as a message''^ from on High, 

To speak the child^ 
Asleep in error's thrall, the Saints were stirred. 
New is it answered, — hope no more deferred. 

No more reviled. 

''^ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, P. 308. 
This little messenger has done its work... 



38. Four Beasts^* from mortal consciousness arise, 
Strong thoughts to typify, and symbolize 

Four kings^^ as one. 
With likeness'''^ of a man, encompassing, 
They guard'''' the Christ-idea, — on upward wing, — 

The "Son of Nun." 

''* DANIEL, 7:3. 
And four great beasts came up from the sea, di- 
verse one from another. 



196 arise! take thy journey. 

''^ DANIEL, 7:17. 
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, 
which shall arise out of the earth. 



^^ EZEKIEL, 1:5. 
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of 
four living creatures. And this was their appearance; 
they had the likeness of a man. 



''''' REVELATION, 4 : 8. 
And the four beasts had each of them six wings 
about him . . . 



39. The first, a Lion'''*^ bold, with eagle's wings, — 
Love's pinions (plucked, celestial joy it brings), — 

Surmounts all strife. 
The second, like a Bear,''''* — on one side raised, — 
Between the teeth — will power — three ribs are praised 

Love, Truth, and Life. 

''^ DANIEL, 7:4. 

The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I 

beheld till the the wings thereof were plucked, and it 

was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon 

the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 



- i 



NEW JERUSALEM. 1 97 

'^^ DANIEL, 7:5. 
And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, 
and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three 
ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and 
they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 



40. The third, a Leopard,^^ sleeplessly alert, 
Enveloping its own against all hurt, 

Shall compass man.**^ 
Four wings — dominion's type — reveal anew 
Love's gift of double measure to the true ; — 

Divine in plan. 

^^ DANIEL, 7 : 6. 
After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, 
which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; 
the beast had also four heads; and dominion was 
given to it. 



^* JEREMIAH, 31 : 22. 
A woman shall compass a man. 



41. A fourth,^^ with iron teeth, the prophet saw 
Come howling to fulfil a mortal law, 

And fool the blind. 



198 arise! take thy journey. 

Named spiritless, the head of Zion's band, 
And founder of the City on the sand, 

Misleads mankind. 



^^ DANiEE, 7 : 7. 
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a 
fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong ex- 
ceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured 
and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the 
feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts 
that were before it; and it had ten horns. 



42. The next, a little horn,^^ as Daniel states, 
The zenith gains,*^ and thereby demonstrates 

Death has no sting. 
The greatest love,^^ that man with Maker blends, 
Is laying down belief of life for friends ; — 

The crucial thing. 



^^ DANiEE, 7:8. 
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up 
among them another little h'orn, before whom there 
were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: 
and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of 
man, and a mouth speaking great things. 



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^■* SCIENCE AND HEALTH, P. 565. 
. . . but this only impelled the idea to rise to the 
zenith of demonstration . . . 

«" JOHN, 15: 13. 
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay 
down his life for his friends. 



43. By names, in symbol, oft are volumes told, 
And thus the beasts described, th' attention hold 

Of wisdom's eye. 
The first with meanings apposite is rife; — 
Departure from the current thought of life. 

To signify. 

44. Derived from Latin comes the second name; 
And means To stand when raging all aflame. 

Truth's foes appear. 
The third conveys the thought of To sustain^ 
And keep from falling one upheld in vain, 

Were Love not near. 

45. The last, implying to proclaim the news. 
Announces that the City of the Jews 

At last is found. 
This Holy Zion, with foundations^^ sure. 
And governed by the twelve apostles^' pure, 

With Christ is crowned. 



2CX) arise! take thy journey. 

, II : 10. 
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, 
.whose builder and maker is God. 



*^ REVELATION^ 21 : 1 4. 
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, 
and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the 
Lamb. 



46. Of these prophetic beasts, the last two** named, 
Anointed,*^ stand before the Lord, unblamed;^^ — 

Witnesses^^ true. 
Receiving power^^ from God, with sure command 
Shall water turn to blood :^^ — plagues smite the land, 

For man to rue. 

** REVELATION, 11:4. 
These are the two olive trees, and the two candle- 
sticks standing before the God of the earth. 

*^ ZECHARIAH, 4: I4. 
Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, 
that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. 

^^ COLOSSIANS, I : 22. 
In the body of his flesh through death, to present 
you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his 
sight. 



NEW JERUSALEM. 20I 



^* DANIEL, 8: 20. 



The ram which thou sawest having two horns are 
the kings of Media and Persia. 

^^ REVELATION, 2 : 26. 
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works 
unto the end, to him will I give power over the na- 
tions. 

^^ REVELATION, II : 6. 
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not 
in the days of their prophecy: and have power over 
waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth 
with all plagues, as often as they will. 



47. In Daniel's ram,^^ two natures like two horns, 
Unite in One, and barefoot tread on thorns, 

With sackcloth ^^ clotlied. 
One horn is high^^ in power, though 'tis surpassed 
By that awaking to the Truth the last ; — 

Reviled and loathed. 

^* DANIEL, 8:3. 
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, 
there stood before the river a ram which had two 
horns . . . 



202 arise! take thy journey. 

^^ revelation. 11:3. 
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and 
they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and 
threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 



^^ DANIEL, 8:3. 
. . . and the two horns were high; but one was 
higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 



48. One thousand and two hundred, plus threescore 
Of days,^^ the Ram's horns prophesy 'neath sore 

Affliction's rod ; 
When chastened by the cross, as time goes by, 
Though in the streets two bodies seem to lie,^* 

All Life is God. 



^'' REVELATION, 11:3. 
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and 
they shall prophesy a thousand and threescore 
days . . . 



^^ REVELATION, II : 8. 
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the 
great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and 
Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 



NEW JERUSALEM. 203 

49. To prove the Bible true in what it saith, 
They loved not their lives unto the death ;^^ — 

Accused^^*^ no more; 
The serpent^^^ is cast out, with mighty host ; 
Fear not, — triumphant through the Holy Ghost, — 

Long life in store. 

II- 
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, 

and by the word of their testimony; and they loved 

not their lives unto death. 

^^^* REVELATION, 12 : 10. 
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is 
come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our 
God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of 
our brethren is cast down, which accused them be- 
fore our God day and night. 

^^^ REVELATION, 12:9. 
And the great dragon was cast out, that old ser- 
pent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the 
whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his 
angels were cast out with him. 



50. Within six years, lo, mighty Babylon falls ;^^^ 
Then sever human ties, as Spirit calls ; — 

Christ's w^edding^^^ day. 



204 arise! take thy journey. 

What God unites^^^ in Love let no man part ; — 
Two individual natures/^^ one in heart 

To watch and pray. 

103 Ri^vELATION, i8: lO. 
. . . Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty 
city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 



^^^ REVELATION, 19:7. 
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: 
for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife 
hath made herself ready. 



^^^ MATTHEW, 19:6. 
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. 
What therefore God hath joined together, let no man 
put asunder. 



^^^ SCIENCE AND HEALTH, P. 577. 

51. The time^*^^ required to make an end of wrong 
Is seventy weeks ; — lost heirs defrauded long, 

Through others' sins. 
Commencing when the name^^^ was read, Christ's day 
Until the first of the succeeding May, 

God's Work begins. 



NEW JERUSALEM. 205 

1^^ DANIEL, 9: 24. 
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and 
upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to 
make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for 
iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, 
and to seal up the vision and prophesy, and to an- 
noint the most Holy. 

l<»^ ISAIAH, 45:4. 

For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, 
I have even called thee by thy name . . . 



52. The dry bones, ^^'"^ resurrected, reappear; — 
As foretold by the Lord's inspired seer ; — 

Restored to life. 
And, gathered as a flock, ^^^'^ an army stand ; — 
Exceeding great,^^^ throughout the troubled land, — 

To end all^*^ strife. 



37:1. 
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me 

out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the 

midst of the valley which was full of bones. 

^^*-^ JEREMIAH, 31 : 10. 
Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and de- 
clare it in the isles afar off, and say. He that scat- 



2o6 arise:! take thy journey. 

tered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shep- 
herd doth his flock. 



^^^ EZEKIEL, Sy: lO. 
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the 
breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up 
upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 



^^^ DANIEL, 9 : 24. 
... to finish the transgression, and to make an end 
of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to 
bring in everlasting righteousness . . . 



53. By genealogies, — in Scripture told, — 
Long centuries since were gathered^^^ in one fold, 

Jehovah's own. 
Behold, the seed of Jacob's youngest son, 
By the Messiah summoned, one by one,^*^ 

Unto the throne. 

^^^ NEHEMIAH, 7:5,6. 
And my God put into mine heart to gather together 
the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they 
might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a 
register of the genealogy of them which came up at 
the first, and found written therein, 



il 



NEW JERUSALEM. 207 

These are the children of the province, that went up 
out of the captivity, of those that had been carried 
away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon 
had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and 
to Judah, every one unto his city. 



^^^ ISAIAH, 2^]'. 12. 
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord 
shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the 
stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by 
one, O ye children of Israel. 



54. False mortal mind — the Judah^^^ power — must 

yield ; — 
The lion,^*^ undisturbed, because not healed,*^^ — 

Asleep, and blind. 
When later on aroused, it will awake, 
To join^^'' with Benjamin, the world forsake. 

And heaven find. 



^^* GENESIS, 49: 10. 
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law- 
giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and 
unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 



2o8 arise! take thy journey. 

^^^ genesis, 49 : 9. 
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, 
thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a 
lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 

*^^ JEREMIAH, 6: 14. 
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of 
my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there 
is no peace. 

^^' HOSEA, I : II. 
Then shall the children of Judah and the children 
of Israel be gathered together, and appoint them- 
selves one head, and they shall come up out of the 
land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel. 



55. x\hijah in twelve pieces^^** rent a coat; 
And then foretold the power of Truth, that smote 

Through David's seed. 
To Rehoboam^^'^ but one tribe was left 
To follow David's house, — of sight bereft, 

By blinding creed. 

^^^ I. KINGS, II : 30. 
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on 
him, and rent it in twelve pieces. 



NEW JE:RUSALEM. 20C 

^^^ I. KINGS, 12: 20. 
. . . there was none that followed the house of 
David, but the tribe of Judah only. 

56. Ten tribes with Jeroboam^^*^ casting lot, 
Thus making 'leven, — one appearing not. 

Remains unfound. 
With Benjamin united Judah's tribe, 
To reinstate the Kingdom of the Scribe,^^* — 

Long since renowned. 

^^^ I. KINGS, II : 31. 
And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for 
thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will 
rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and 
will give ten tribes to thee. 

^^^ I. KINGS, 12: 21. 
And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he 
assembled all the house of Judah, vnth the tribe of 
Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen 
men, which were warriors, to fight against the house 
of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam 
the son of Solomon. 

57. Mankind as history these facts recall ; 
Far deeper meaning, — writing on the wall, — 

The thoughts convey. 



2IO arise! take thy journey. 

As once these tribes assembled, — joining hands, — 
Again, the looked- for union breaks earth's bands, 

And points the way. 



58. Yea, raven^^^ as a wolf shall this lost tribe 
Of forty thousand heirs ; — soon to imbibe 

The truth of all. 
The prey shall be devoured in morning light, 
And spoil divided, at the coming night. 

From Babel's fall. 



*2^ GENESIS, 49 : 27. 

Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning he 
shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide 
the spoil. 

59. The Judah consciousness is fast outgrown, 
As to a world the Ephraim^^^ power is shown ; — 

The new-born child.*^* 
All Christian Scientists will then be known 
As Ephraim's tribe, — of Joseph's seed,*^^ well sown, 

And unbeguiled. 



*2^ JEREMIAH, 31:9. 
... I am a father in Israel, and Ephraim is my first- 
born. 



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^-* JEREMIAH, 31 : 20. 
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant 
child? ... 

^^^ GENESIS, 48: II. 
And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to 
see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy 
seed. 

60. When Benjamin, through leavened thought awakes, 
And renamed tribe of Judah^^^ thus partakes 

Of Truth and Life, 
Behold the bond of union in one stick,^^' — 
Combined with Joseph, and no longer sick,^^^ 

Through mortal strife. 

^2^ EZEKIEL, 37: 16. 
Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, 
and write upon it, for Judah, and for the children of 
Israel his companions . . . 

^2' EZEKIEL, Z7'- 19- 
Say imto them. Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, 
I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand 
Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and 
will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, 
and make them one stick, and they shall be one in 
mine hand. 



212 arise! take thy journey. 

*2* ISAIAH^ ^^ : 24. 
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the 
' people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their 
iniquity. 



61. Lost Israel's Shepherd^^^ then will sovereign stand. 
Before the tribe of Ephraim, — Joseph's band, — 

The world to save.*^^ 
Together now with Judah (Benjamin), 
Will protestants, as of Manasseh's^^^ kin. 

The issue brave. 

*2^ PSALM 80: I. 
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest 
Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the 
cherubims, shine forth. 

^^^ and ^^^ PSALM 80 : 2. 
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir 
up thy strength, and come and save us. 



62. For seventy*^^ years, God's indignation grown 
Against the City, — built not on its own, — 

Has, gath'ring, burned. 
The more so, that the records^^^ of the right 
(Purloined, — in Trust vaults hidden deep from sight) 

Are not returned. 



NEW JERUSALEM. 213 



^^2 ZECHARIAH, I : 12. 



Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O 
Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on 
Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which 
thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten 



^^^ JEREMIAH^ 32 : 44. 
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evi- 
dences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land 
of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and 
in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the moun- 
tains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities 
of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, 
saith the Lord. 



63. The Greater City's upper half^^^ shall fall, 
Bestowing on the rightful owners all 

Their promised land. 
The other half,^^^ that cannot separate, 
Unites to share in God's one grand estate, — 

Held in Love's hand. 

^^* JEREMIAH, 51:31. 
One post shall run to meet another, and one mes- 
senger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon 
that his city is taken at one end. 



214 arise:! take thy journey. 

^^^ zechariah, 14:2. 

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to 
battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses 
rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city 
shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the 
people shall not be cut off from the city. 



64. These latter days, a king^^^ of visage fierce, 
Ordained to prophesy, — dark sayings pierce, — 

Erect will stand ; 
While Science overturns, as told before. 
And dear-bought harmony^^'^ forevermore 

Controls the land. 



^^^ DANIEL, 8 : 2^. 

And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the 
transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce 
countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall 
stand up. 



^^'^ REVEIvATlON, 22:3. 

And there shall be no more curse: but the throne 
of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his ser- 
vants shall serve him. 



NEW JERUSALEM. 215 

65. On Patmos, to the Loving One/^^ Christ came ; 
A secret told, — recorded in Truth's name, — 

Now brought to Hght. 
The Revelator urges all to hear;^^'* 
And see the meaning of the thought made clear, 

Through Spirit sight. 



138 RE^vELATiON, 1 : 9. 

« ^ 
I John, who also am your brother, and companion 
in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of 
Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, 
for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus 
Christ. 



139 re;vELATION, 2 1 II. 

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit 
saith unto the churches . . . 



66. The Seven Churches^^^ were not built of stone; — 
Ideas instead, in eastern light upgrown, — 

Candlesticks^^^ seven. 
While six support the Tower^^^ in troublous days, 
The other, Holy One, forever prays,^*^ 

Through love from heaven. 



2i6 arise! take thy journey. 

^^^ REVELATION, i: II. 

Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the 
last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send 
it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto 
Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and 
unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadel- 
phia, and imto Laodicea. 

^^^ REVELATION, I : 20. 

The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest 
in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. 
The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: 
and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the 
seven churches. 

^^2 I. HERMAS, VISIO'N III : 24, 25. 

She answered, Dost thou not see over against thee 
a great tower, which is built upon the water, with 
bright square stones? 

For the tower was built upon a square by these six 
young men that came with her. 

^"^^ II. ESDRAS, 9 : 44. 

And those thirty years I did nothing else day and 
night, and every hour, but make my prayer to the 
Highest. 



NEW JERUSALEM. 217 

6y. Nowhere on earth is stretched forth a Hne/*^ 
Like that across this Isle, — a Bible sign, 

To ever stand. 
Not only this marked feature is made clear, 
But First Church^^^ there described, erected near 

In Shinar land. 



^*^ ZECHARIAH, I : 16. 

Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to 
Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, 
saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched 
forth upon Jerusalem. 



^*^ ZECHARIAH, 5: II. 

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the 
land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set 
there upon her own base. 



68. A scoffing world may ask, Have women two^*^ 
E'er built a house^^^ that stands for what is true ? 

O doubting age! 
Shall prophecies of old wise men despise,^*® 
As though comprised of satan's darkest lies? 

Reply, O Sage! 



21 8 arise! take thy journey. 

5:9. 

Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, be- 
hold, there came out two women, and the wind was 
in their wings ... 

^^"^ ZECHARIAH^ 5- II- 
And he said unto me. To build it an house in the 
land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set 
there upon her own base. 



^^* I. THESSALONIANS, 5 : 20. 



Despise not prophesyings. 



69. This temple fronts the sun, — distinct, alone ; 
Its mighty granite blocks portray in stone 

Concept of Mind. 
By constant labor, and in purpose whole, 
Through years of toil, and travail of the soul, 

Bears thought its kind. 



70. E'er trod the Master, lone, by Galilee, 
God's mansion stood from all eternity, 

Already built ! 
By aid of sense of Soul,^^^ through mists of mind. 
The prophet saw this Church, when men were blind, 

Because of guilt. 



NEW JERUSALEM. . 219 

^•*^ SCIENCE AND HEALTH, P. 85. 
This Soul-sense comes to the human mind when the 



latter yields to the divine Mind. 



71. Not one alone the mental secret learned, 

For Hernias, too, this Tower^^*^ of strength discerned ;- 

So plainly said. 
The Psalmist prophesied the coming Son ; — 
Rejected by the Builders,^^* — to become- 

The Corner Head. 

^"^ III. HERMAS, SIM., 9: II5. 

And he said unto me, Didst thou see the multitude 
of those that built that tower? Sir, said I, I saw it. 
He answered, All those are the angels, venerable in 
their dignity. 



*^^ LUKE, 20: 17. 

And he beheld them, and said, What is this then 
that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, 
the same is become the head of the corner? 



^2. The question^''*- asked by Haggai is met 
Behold, the sacred House in Zion set; — 

Revealed in Mind. 



220 arise! take thy journey. 

A fortress strong, of all-abiding Love; 
Abode of Peace, whereon descends the Dove, — 

Sweet rest to find. 

^^^ Haggai, 2:3. 

Who is left among you that saw this house in her 
first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in 
your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? 



y2)' The present mortal man will pass away; 
A new one rise, a nobler part to play ; — 

God's will be done! 
No more in earth can sorrow find a place; 
The dear ones parted, shall meet face to face ; — 

Christ's Kingdom Come! 



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